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 “Wen Peng” — 55 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 07:48 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.
Draft poem for seeing off Lin Jun (1452–1527), by Wen Peng

Draft poem for seeing off Lin Jun (1452–1527)

Wen Peng

Public domainThe Met
Arthraxon epectinatus B.S. Sun & H. Peng

Arthraxon epectinatus B.S. Sun & H. Peng

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligraphy, by Wen Peng

Calligraphy

Wen Peng

Public domainThe Met
Aralia dasyphylla Miq.

Aralia dasyphylla Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem on Promulgating the Almanac at New Year’s, by Wen Peng

Poem on Promulgating the Almanac at New Year’s

Wen Peng · undated

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia glandulosa subsp. brachycarpa (Torr. & A. Gray) C.I. Peng

Ludwigia glandulosa subsp. brachycarpa (Torr. & A. Gray) C.I. Peng

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
After Wang Xianzhi's (344–385) Foxglove Broth Letter, by Wen Peng

After Wang Xianzhi's (344–385) Foxglove Broth Letter

Wen Peng · dated 1567

Public domainThe Met
Phalaropus lobatus

Phalaropus lobatus

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lofty mountains, by Hou Maogong

Lofty mountains

Hou Maogong · dated 1569

Public domainThe Met
Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River, by Mi Fu

Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River

Mi Fu · ca. 1095

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia ravenii C.I. Peng

Ludwigia ravenii C.I. Peng

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Seven Pines, by Unidentified artist

The Seven Pines

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Begonia ravenii C.I. Peng & Y.K. Chen

Begonia ravenii C.I. Peng & Y.K. Chen

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River Landscape with Thirteen Inscriptions, by Unidentified artist

River Landscape with Thirteen Inscriptions

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Lysionotus pauciflorus Maxim.

Lysionotus pauciflorus Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pear Blossoms, by Unidentified

Pear Blossoms

Unidentified · ca. 1280

Public domainThe Met
Belosynapsis kawakamii (Hayata) C.I. Peng & Y.J. Chen

Belosynapsis kawakamii (Hayata) C.I. Peng & Y.J. Chen

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Flowers, by Chen Chun

Garden Flowers

Chen Chun · dated 1540

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia glandulosa Walter x L. glandulosa subsp. brachycarpa (Torr. & A. Gray) C.I. Peng

Ludwigia glandulosa Walter x L. glandulosa subsp. brachycarpa (Torr. & A. Gray) C.I. Peng

Artist not stated in the record · Summer 1979 - 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty Sleeping on a Banana Leaf, by Tang Yin

Beauty Sleeping on a Banana Leaf

Tang Yin

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia glandulosa subsp. brachycarpa (Torr. & A. Gray) C.I. Peng x L. lanceolata Elliott

Ludwigia glandulosa subsp. brachycarpa (Torr. & A. Gray) C.I. Peng x L. lanceolata Elliott

Artist not stated in the record · Summer 1979 - 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silent fisherman in an autumn wood, by Shen Zhou

Silent fisherman in an autumn wood

Shen Zhou · dated 1475

Public domainThe Met
Rattus rattus

Rattus rattus

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1961

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 13215 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 2026-09-10 07:48 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.