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 vine scroll and palmette pattern” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:00 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.
Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Textile

Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by F. E. James Co., New York, New York

Frieze

F. E. James Co., New York, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625 (or earlier)

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Indo-Persian carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

Artist not stated in the record · middle of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–early 17th 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 · 1860–1870

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
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

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
Sidewall, by Defosse et Karth

Sidewall

Defosse et Karth · 1820–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase Carpet

Vase Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silk Kashan Carpet

Silk Kashan Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase-technique Carpet with Overlapping Cartouches

Vase-technique Carpet with Overlapping Cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Design for Doors

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Polonaise' Carpet

'Polonaise' Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

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. 241 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1525273 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 10:00 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.