OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 16 shown for “Two Lohans” — 44 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:45 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Two Lohans

Two Lohans

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Lohan under a canopy; a lion, and two attendants

Lohan under a canopy; a lion, and two attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Arhat, by Shōun Genkei

Seated Arhat

Shōun Genkei · 1688–95

Public domainThe Met
Elatostema sp.

Elatostema sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Villeroy

Plate

Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Psychotria gyrulosa Stapf

Psychotria gyrulosa Stapf

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sixteen Luohans, by Chen Xian

The Sixteen Luohans

Chen Xian · spurious date of 1634

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra oblongifolia (Blume) Benth. & Hook. ex C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra oblongifolia (Blume) Benth. & Hook. ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oreocnide trinervis (Wedd.) Miq.

Oreocnide trinervis (Wedd.) Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Syzygium villamilii (Merr.) Merr. & L.M. Perry

Syzygium villamilii (Merr.) Merr. & L.M. Perry

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antidesma riparium Airy Shaw

Antidesma riparium Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus inermis Leyss.

Bromus inermis Leyss.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus inermis Leyss.

Bromus inermis Leyss.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthetrum chrysis

Orthetrum chrysis

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudagrion microcephalum

Pseudagrion microcephalum

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melica jacquemontii Decne.

Melica jacquemontii Decne.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 49922 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:45 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.