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 “Zhang Hong” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:56 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.
Water Buffaloes, by Zhang Hong

Water Buffaloes

Zhang Hong · dated 1639

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia colorata subsp. taliensis (Diels) T. J. Zhang & D.Y. Hong

Lobelia colorata subsp. taliensis (Diels) T. J. Zhang & D.Y. Hong

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peach Blossom Spring, by Zhang Hong

Peach Blossom Spring

Zhang Hong · dated 1638

Public domainThe Met
Landscape: mountain gorge, mist, a brook, and buildings, by Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668)

Landscape: mountain gorge, mist, a brook, and buildings

Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Zhang Feng

Landscapes

Zhang Feng · dated 1644

Public domainThe Met
Landscape: houses and a brook in a mountain gorge, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668)

Landscape: houses and a brook in a mountain gorge

Formerly attributed to Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hand warmer, by Zhang Mingqi

Hand warmer

Zhang Mingqi · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Guanyin, by Probably by Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668)

Standing Guanyin

Probably by Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter, by Jiao Hong

Letter

Jiao Hong

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia ludlowii (Stern & G. Taylor) D.Y. Hong

Paeonia ludlowii (Stern & G. Taylor) D.Y. Hong

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto, by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai, by Wang Hui

The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai

Wang Hui · datable to 1698

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia sterniana H.R. Fletcher

Paeonia sterniana H.R. Fletcher

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Temples amid Autumn Mountains, by Unidentified artist

Buddhist Temples amid Autumn Mountains

Unidentified artist · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai, by Li Jie

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai

Li Jie · ca. 1170

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds in a lotus pond, by Bada Shanren (Zhu Da)

Birds in a lotus pond

Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Travelers in a Wintry Forest, by Unidentified artist

Travelers in a Wintry Forest

Unidentified artist · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Paeonia delavayi Franch.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru

Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095

Public domainThe Met
Paeonia ludlowii (Stern & G. Taylor) D.Y. Hong

Paeonia ludlowii (Stern & G. Taylor) D.Y. Hong

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1996

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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 11024 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 12:56 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.