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 “Carpet fragment” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 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.
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-ground Carpet Fragment with Scrolling Floral Vines

Blue-ground Carpet Fragment with Scrolling Floral Vines

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an Animal Carpet

Fragment of an Animal Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Northwest Persian Medallion Carpet

Fragment of a Northwest Persian Medallion Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment, by Bigelow Carpet Company, American

Carpet fragment

Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment, by Bigelow Carpet Company, American

Carpet fragment

Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet Fragment

Carpet Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

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. 162 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 39624 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 21:35 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.