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 “Zhao Yuan” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 03:30 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.

Snow clearing on mountains and rivers, after Wang Wei, by Formerly attributed to Zhao Yuan (mid- to late 14th century)

Snow clearing on mountains and rivers, after Wang Wei

Formerly attributed to Zhao Yuan (mid- to late 14th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old trees and cold crows, in the style of Zhao Danian, by Formerly attributed to Zhao Boju (ca. 1120s-ca.1162)

Old trees and cold crows, in the style of Zhao Danian

Formerly attributed to Zhao Boju (ca. 1120s-ca.1162) · 14th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yinshania fumarioides (Dunn) Y.Z. Zhao

Yinshania fumarioides (Dunn) Y.Z. Zhao

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oxytropis siziwangensis Y.Z. Zhao & Zong Y. Zhu

Oxytropis siziwangensis Y.Z. Zhao & Zong Y. Zhu

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/5/35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cytheropteron pararhombiformis Zhao et al., 2000

Cytheropteron pararhombiformis Zhao et al., 2000

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cytheropteron pararhombiformis Zhao et al., 2000

Cytheropteron pararhombiformis Zhao et al., 2000

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cytheropteron mediotumidum Zhao et al., 2000

Cytheropteron mediotumidum Zhao et al., 2000

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunus topengii (Merr.) J. Wen & L.Q. Zhao

Prunus topengii (Merr.) J. Wen & L.Q. Zhao

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Central Asian groom pasturing a horse

Central Asian groom pasturing a horse

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix daliensis C.F. Fang & S.D. Zhao

Salix daliensis C.F. Fang & S.D. Zhao

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 453

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix daliensis C.F. Fang & S.D. Zhao

Salix daliensis C.F. Fang & S.D. Zhao

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1984

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. 6447 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-29 03:30 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.