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. 21 shown for “Zhang Xiong” — 49 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:20 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.
Landscape, by Zhang Xiong

Landscape

Zhang Xiong

Public domainThe Met
Myricaria paniculata P.Y. Zhang & Y.J. Zhang

Myricaria paniculata P.Y. Zhang & Y.J. Zhang

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers, by Zhang Xiong

Flowers

Zhang Xiong

Public domainThe Met
Phyllolobium sp.

Phyllolobium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubbings and flowers, by Zhang Xiong

Rubbings and flowers

Zhang Xiong

Public domainThe Met
Leptochilus wrightii (Hook.) X.C. Zhang

Leptochilus wrightii (Hook.) X.C. Zhang

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plum blossoms, by Zhang Xiong

Plum blossoms

Zhang Xiong

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/11/35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower and Toad, by Zhang Xiong

Flower and Toad

Zhang Xiong

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Zhang Xiong

Landscape

Zhang Xiong · dated 1827

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower and Bird, by Zhang Xiong

Flower and Bird

Zhang Xiong · dated 1878

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spiritual Stone, by Zhang Xiong

Spiritual Stone

Zhang Xiong · dated 1858

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris nodosa (C. Presl) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris nodosa (C. Presl) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record

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
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris pseudocaenopteris (Kunze) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris nodosa (C. Presl) Li Bing Zhang

Dryopteris nodosa (C. Presl) Li Bing Zhang

Artist not stated in the record · 1821

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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1195 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 2026-08-28 05:20 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.