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 “Bedspread with birds and floral scrolls” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:28 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.
Bedspread with birds and floral scrolls

Bedspread with birds and floral scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bedspread

Bedspread

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bedspread

Bedspread

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Cup

Standing Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn, by Shikibu Terutada

Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn

Shikibu Terutada · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers, by Kano Motonobu

Birds and Flowers

Kano Motonobu · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tablecover

Tablecover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bedspread

Bedspread

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls

Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Obelisk, by Petrus van Marum

Obelisk

Petrus van Marum · ca. 1700–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha, by Unidentified artist

Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha

Unidentified artist · ca. 1383

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze

Design for a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Jar with Cover

Miniature Jar with Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze

Design for a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with birds and animals

Beaker with birds and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735

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. 1217 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. 2075755 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-08 02:28 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.