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. 12 shown for “Wen Zhengming” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Xiao Yi obtaining the Lanting Manuscript by trickery, by Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan 錢選 (late 13th century)

Xiao Yi obtaining the Lanting Manuscript by trickery

Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan 錢選 (late 13th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palaces on the shore of a lake, by Follower of Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552)

Palaces on the shore of a lake

Follower of Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape: a lake, cliffs, and trees, by Follower of Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559)

Landscape: a lake, cliffs, and trees

Follower of Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guanyin and Shancai, by Formerly attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552)

Guanyin and Shancai

Formerly attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heptapleurum zhengyianum (J. Wen et al.) J. Wen

Heptapleurum zhengyianum (J. Wen et al.) J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Metapanax davidii J. Wen & Frodin

Metapanax davidii J. Wen & Frodin

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Causonis japonica var. pseudotrifolia (W.T. Wang) Parmar & J. Wen

Causonis japonica var. pseudotrifolia (W.T. Wang) Parmar & J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudocayratia dichromocarpa (H. Lév.) J. Wen & Z.D. Chen

Pseudocayratia dichromocarpa (H. Lév.) J. Wen & Z.D. Chen

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Metapanax delavayi (Franch.) J. Wen & Frodin

Metapanax delavayi (Franch.) J. Wen & Frodin

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nekemias cantoniensis (Hook. & Arn.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Nekemias cantoniensis (Hook. & Arn.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunus hypoleuca (Koehne) J. Wen

Prunus hypoleuca (Koehne) J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunus hypoleuca (Koehne) J. Wen

Prunus hypoleuca (Koehne) J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 2016

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11966 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-26 20:36 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.