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. 13 shown for “Wang Shanggong” — 41 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 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.
Paragons of Loyalty and Filial Piety, by Wang Shanggong

Paragons of Loyalty and Filial Piety

Wang Shanggong · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Primulina linearifolia (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina linearifolia (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina pinnata (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina pinnata (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina subrhomboidea (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina subrhomboidea (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina longgangensis (W.T. Wang) Yan Liu & Y.Z. Wang

Primulina longgangensis (W.T. Wang) Yan Liu & Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aconitum carmichaelii var. hwangshanicum (W.T. Wang & P.K. Hsiao) W.T. Wang & P.K. Hsiao

Aconitum carmichaelii var. hwangshanicum (W.T. Wang & P.K. Hsiao) W.T. Wang & P.K. Hsiao

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Mar 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lysionotus longipedunculatus (W.T. Wang) W.T. Wang

Lysionotus longipedunculatus (W.T. Wang) W.T. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1985 to 10 Oct 1985

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5757 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 21:05 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.