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 Scrolling Vines and Blossoms” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:31 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 Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

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
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Border

Border

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Scrolling Vines

Vase with Scrolling Vines

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase Carpet

Vase Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Title Page, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation", by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Title Page, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation"

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · probably first half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Plum Blossoms and Moon, by Itō Jakuchū

White Plum Blossoms and Moon

Itō Jakuchū · 1755

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–1850

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. 649 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. 1524788 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 00:31 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.