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 with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:27 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 with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants

Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl

Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragments

Carpet fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1680

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
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silk Animal Carpet

Silk Animal Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase Carpet

Vase Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Sidewall

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1830–31

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Water and Plants, by Thomas Fearnley

Study of Water and Plants

Thomas Fearnley · 1837

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1188 AH/1774 CE

Public domainThe Met
Campion, by Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941

Campion

Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

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. 65 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. 6752603 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-02 00:27 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.