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. 23 shown for “Body with garment, pleating” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:12 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.
body with garment, pleating

body with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, pleating

Body with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black cassock with band collar, by Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947

Black cassock with band collar

Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947 · mid to late-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, pleating

Body with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lavender tweed swing coat designed by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Lavender tweed swing coat designed by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, pleating

Body with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, pleating

Body with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dress worn by Marie Monroe of Rosewood, Florida, by Unidentified

Dress worn by Marie Monroe of Rosewood, Florida

Unidentified · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleating

Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dark blue maxi skirt designed by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Dark blue maxi skirt designed by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleating

Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Braided hat with purple pleated hatband, by Frances Original, American

Braided hat with purple pleated hatband

Frances Original, American · ca. 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, pleats

Body with garment, pleats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body fragment with garment pleats

Body fragment with garment pleats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Torso

Torso

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleated

Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleated

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pink knit skirt, by Unidentified

Pink knit skirt

Unidentified · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe

Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery, by Unidentified

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery

Unidentified · ca. 1914 - 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
body with garment pleats

body with garment pleats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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. 1225 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. 279913 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 15:12 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.