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. 23 shown for “Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.” — 51 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:44 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.
Poem on reclusion, by Zhou Lianggong

Poem on reclusion

Zhou Lianggong · dated 1662

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1909 to 1 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Colors among Streams and Mountains, by Shen Zhou

Autumn Colors among Streams and Mountains

Shen Zhou · ca. 1490–1500

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1909 to 1 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape album, by Bada Shanren (Zhu Da)

Landscape album

Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) · dated 1699

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1909 to 1 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sixteen Luohans, by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

The Sixteen Luohans

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · dated 1667

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wintry mountains, by Gong Xian

Wintry mountains

Gong Xian · ca. 1679–89

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu, by Ni Zan

Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu

Ni Zan · dated 1372

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/3/39

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes in the styles of old masters, by Wang Jian

Landscapes in the styles of old masters

Wang Jian · dated 1668

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with king hunting rams

Plate with king hunting rams

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-5th–mid-6th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1911 to 26 Mar 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloudy Mountains, by Fang Congyi

Cloudy Mountains

Fang Congyi · ca. 1360–70

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria cherrevensis (Pierre ex Finet & Gagnep.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria cherrevensis (Pierre ex Finet & Gagnep.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/6/30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Colors of Mount Taihang, by Wang Hui

The Colors of Mount Taihang

Wang Hui · dated 1669

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria cuneifolia (Hook. f. & Thomson) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria cuneifolia (Hook. f. & Thomson) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samyutagama Sutra, chapter 25, from the Jinsushan Tripitaka, by Unidentified artist

Samyutagama Sutra, chapter 25, from the Jinsushan Tripitaka

Unidentified artist · datable to 1060s–1080s

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria cuneifolia (Hook. f. & Thomson) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria cuneifolia (Hook. f. & Thomson) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria cuneifolia (Hook. f. & Thomson) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria cuneifolia (Hook. f. & Thomson) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1883

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 160379 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 22:44 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.