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. 20 shown for “Ye Xin” — 49 records examined, 10 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.
Landscapes, by Ye Xin

Landscapes

Ye Xin · dated 1652

Public domainThe Met
Allium prattii C.H. Wright

Allium prattii C.H. Wright

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Ye Xin

Landscape

Ye Xin · datable to 1645–55

Public domainThe Met
Grewia biloba G. Don

Grewia biloba G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Crane Mountain, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong, by Ye Xin

White Crane Mountain, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Ye Xin · datable to 1654–55

Public domainThe Met
Anzia hypomelaena (Nyl.) Xin Y. Wang et al.

Anzia hypomelaena (Nyl.) Xin Y. Wang et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reminiscence of Jinling, by Wang Gai

Reminiscence of Jinling

Wang Gai · 1686

Public domainThe Met
Eurya muricata Dunn

Eurya muricata Dunn

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer Mountains, by Qu Ding

Summer Mountains

Qu Ding · ca. 1050

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia gymnanthera (Wight & Arn.) Sprague

Ternstroemia gymnanthera (Wight & Arn.) Sprague

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulb bowl, Numbered Jun ware, by Chinese

Bulb bowl, Numbered Jun ware

Chinese · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Eurya loquaiana Dunn

Eurya loquaiana Dunn

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One hundred water buffalo, by Unidentified artist

One hundred water buffalo

Unidentified artist · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Camellia acutissima Hung T. Chang

Camellia acutissima Hung T. Chang

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Riverbank, by Dong Yuan

Riverbank

Dong Yuan

Public domainThe Met
Adinandra bockiana var. acutifolia (Hand.-Mazz.) Kobuski

Adinandra bockiana var. acutifolia (Hand.-Mazz.) Kobuski

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eurya muricata Dunn

Eurya muricata Dunn

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eurya loquaiana Dunn

Eurya loquaiana Dunn

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phyllanthus glaucus Wall. ex Müll. Arg.

Phyllanthus glaucus Wall. ex Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedyotis mellii Tutcher

Hedyotis mellii Tutcher

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1995

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 71524 matched · 40 examined · 9 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.