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. 13 shown for “Zhou Dongqing” — 41 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:18 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 Pleasures of Fishes, by Zhou Dongqing

The Pleasures of Fishes

Zhou Dongqing · dated 1291

Public domainThe Met
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scutellaria adenotricha X.H. Guo & S.B. Zhou

Scutellaria adenotricha X.H. Guo & S.B. Zhou

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/3/39

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria siamensis (Scheff.) L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1911 to 26 Mar 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger-axe (ge) with snake

Dagger-axe (ge) with snake

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050–975 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with ox head

Plaque with ox head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-221 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tashiroea amoena (Diels) R.C. Zhou & Ying Liu

Tashiroea amoena (Diels) R.C. Zhou & Ying Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1924 to 1 Jun 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tashiroea amoena (Diels) R.C. Zhou & Ying Liu

Tashiroea amoena (Diels) R.C. Zhou & Ying Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Odontostemma yulongshanense (L.H. Zhou) Rabeler & W.L. Wagner

Odontostemma yulongshanense (L.H. Zhou) Rabeler & W.L. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1909 to 1 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Uvaria schefferi L.L. Zhou et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1909 to 1 Jun 1909

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 609 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-04 22:18 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.