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. 24 shown for “Wang Li” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:35 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.
Magnolia and Mynahs, by Wang Li

Magnolia and Mynahs

Wang Li

Public domainThe Met
Vitis wuhanensis var. arachnoidea Wang & C.L. Li

Vitis wuhanensis var. arachnoidea Wang & C.L. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepidomicrosorium superficiale (Blume) Li S. Wang

Lepidomicrosorium superficiale (Blume) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepisorus spicatus (L. f.) Li S. Wang

Lepisorus spicatus (L. f.) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepisorus spicatus (L. f.) Li S. Wang

Lepisorus spicatus (L. f.) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Neolepisorus fortunei (T. Moore) Li S. Wang

Neolepisorus fortunei (T. Moore) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering, by Wang Li Mu

Examining Antiques at Literati Gathering

Wang Li Mu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepidomicrosorium superficiale (Blume) Li S. Wang

Lepidomicrosorium superficiale (Blume) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cat, by Wang Li

Cat

Wang Li

Public domainThe Met
Lepidomicrosorium superficiale (Blume) Li S. Wang

Lepidomicrosorium superficiale (Blume) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wang Xizhi watching geese, by Qian Xuan

Wang Xizhi watching geese

Qian Xuan · ca. 1295

Public domainThe Met
Neolepisorus zippelii (Blume) Li S. Wang

Neolepisorus zippelii (Blume) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai, by Wang Hui

The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai

Wang Hui · datable to 1698

Public domainThe Met
Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Lepisorus mucronatus (Fée) Li S. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 18

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. 159 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14314 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 17:35 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.