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 “Bed cover” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 19:05 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.
State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

Public domainThe Met
Bed hangings and bed cover

Bed hangings and bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1826

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover (suzani)

Bed cover (suzani)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–60

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed Cover (Palampore)

Bed Cover (Palampore)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed Cover (Palampore)

Bed Cover (Palampore)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed Cover (Palampore)

Bed Cover (Palampore)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hanging or Bed Cover

Hanging or Bed Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Quilted bed cover

Quilted bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hanging or Bed Cover (Palampore)

Hanging or Bed Cover (Palampore)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bed Cover or Wall Hanging

Bed Cover or Wall Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel of a Tent Lining

Panel of a Tent Lining

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1740

Public domainThe Met
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. 472 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 43970 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 19:05 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.