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 “Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:42 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.
Designs for Printed Cotton Textiles, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Designs for Printed Cotton Textiles

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern Decorated with Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern Decorated with Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a decoration

Fragment of a decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design of Scattered Pealrs over a Background of Scrolling Branches, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design of Scattered Pealrs over a Background of Scrolling Branches

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern and Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Scrolling Branches and Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Scrolling Branches and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Scattered Pearls over an Abstract Background, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Scattered Pearls over an Abstract Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Ribbon

Ribbon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Horizontal Garlands of Alternating Palmettes Decorated with Trefoils of Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Horizontal Garlands of Alternating Palmettes Decorated with Trefoils of Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Figures

Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Alternating Rosettes of Pearls Flanked with Abstract Palmettes of Dots, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Rosettes of Pearls Flanked with Abstract Palmettes of Dots

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Alternating Stylized Flowers and Leaves, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Stylized Flowers and Leaves

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips and Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with a Chevron Base Pattern and Vertical Strips of Lozenges and Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with a Chevron Base Pattern and Vertical Strips of Lozenges and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Vinaigrette

Vinaigrette

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th 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. 3626 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 39333 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-31 11:42 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.