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 “Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 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.
Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design

Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Fragment

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 824 AH/1421 CE

Public domainThe Met
Croisée Drapée à l'Antique, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Croisée Drapée à l'Antique

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · dated 707 AH/1308 CE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Tiles with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Border Tiles with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Border Tile

Border Tile

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twelve-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile

Twelve-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 846 AH/1442–43 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Textile

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Cintamani Design

Tile with Cintamani Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Niche Design

Tile with Niche Design

Artist not stated in the record · dated 712 AH/1312–13 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner Tile

Corner Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner Tile

Corner Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star-Shaped Tile

Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · first half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Waistcoat

Design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Split-Leaf Palmette Design

Dish with Split-Leaf Palmette Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–50

Public domainThe Met
Borders

Borders

Artist not stated in the record · 17th or early 18th 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. 81 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. 138 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 08:50 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.