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. 18 shown for “Alfred Peats Company” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 16:06 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.
Neck Ring (Torque)

Neck Ring (Torque)

Artist not stated in the record · 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Alfred Peats Company

Frieze

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poems by Alfred Tennyson, by Alfred Tennyson

Poems by Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Alfred Peats Company

Ceiling paper

Alfred Peats Company · 1900–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Alfred Peats Company

Ceiling paper

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Family Group], by Désiré Charnay

[Family Group]

Désiré Charnay · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Alfred Peats Company

Frieze

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven Designs for Decorated Cups, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Seven Designs for Decorated Cups

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–55

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Alfred Peats Company

Frieze

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eight Designs for Decorated Cups, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Eight Designs for Decorated Cups

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–55

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Alfred Peats Company

Sidewall

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze, by Alfred Peats Company

Frieze

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alfred Peats Prize Wallpaper

Alfred Peats Prize Wallpaper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alfred Peats Set A Book No. 5

Alfred Peats Set A Book No. 5

Artist not stated in the record · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alfred Peats No. 4

Alfred Peats No. 4

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 5, by Alfred Peats Company

Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 5

Alfred Peats Company · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 3, by Alfred Peats Company

Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 3

Alfred Peats Company · 1915

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. 2435 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 72562 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-30 16:06 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.