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 “Yuan Jiang” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:48 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.
The Palace of Nine Perfections, by Yuan Jiang

The Palace of Nine Perfections

Yuan Jiang · 1691

Public domainThe Met
Picnic on the Riverbank, by Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Picnic on the Riverbank

Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viewing a waterfall from a mountain pavilion, by Li Yin

Viewing a waterfall from a mountain pavilion

Li Yin · 1700

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

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

One hundred water buffalo

Unidentified artist · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Prunus spinulosa Siebold & Zucc.

Prunus spinulosa Siebold & Zucc.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcissus, by Zhao Mengjian

Narcissus

Zhao Mengjian · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Dendropanax dentigerus (Harms) Merr.

Dendropanax dentigerus (Harms) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan, by Wang Jun

Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan

Wang Jun · dated 1883

Public domainThe Met
Osmanthus reticulatus P.S. Green

Osmanthus reticulatus P.S. Green

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes after Song and Yuan masters, by Lan Ying

Landscapes after Song and Yuan masters

Lan Ying · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Winter landscape, by Attributed to Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Winter landscape

Attributed to Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape in the Style of Guo Xi, by Tan Song

Landscape in the Style of Guo Xi

Tan Song · dated 1748

Public domainThe Met
Boats moored on the nighttime river, by Style of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Boats moored on the nighttime river

Style of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual water vessel (lei)

Ritual water vessel (lei)

Artist not stated in the record · 1359

Public domainThe Met
Houses on the river, by School of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Houses on the river

School of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes in the manner of Song and Yuan masters, by Yun Shouping

Landscapes in the manner of Song and Yuan masters

Yun Shouping · 1667

Public domainThe Met
Clear and chilly morning, by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Clear and chilly morning

Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 1722

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

Wang Xizhi watching geese

Qian Xuan · ca. 1295

Public domainThe Met
Hypogymnia pruinosa Wei & Jiang

Hypogymnia pruinosa Wei & Jiang

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bamboo and rock, by Deng Yu

Bamboo and rock

Deng Yu · ca. 1360–67

Public domainThe Met
Elsholtzia densa Benth.

Elsholtzia densa Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grooms and horses, by Zhao Mengfu

Grooms and horses

Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 2012

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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 6470 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 19:48 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.