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 “Zhu Dan (mid- to late 17th century)” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:49 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.
Crossbow Brooch

Crossbow Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 430

Public domainThe Met
The palaces and gate towers of Penglai, by Zhu Dan (mid- to late 17th century)

The palaces and gate towers of Penglai

Zhu Dan (mid- to late 17th century) · 1683

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with Saint Anne, by French Painter

Holy Family with Saint Anne

French Painter · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by Jean Degoullons, French, d. 1687

Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles

Jean Degoullons, French, d. 1687 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · late 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book, by Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master"

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons

Bernardo Daddi

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini, by Maestro delle Storie del Pane

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494?

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini, by Maestro delle Storie del Pane

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494(?)

Public domainThe Met
Three goats under a flowering plum tree, by Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century)

Three goats under a flowering plum tree

Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
LA PERSPECTIVE dans la maison de Mr. le Marquis de Dangeau, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA PERSPECTIVE dans la maison de Mr. le Marquis de Dangeau

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

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. 776 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 961830 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 17:49 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.