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. 12 shown for “Chasuble Front with an Orphrey Band” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:23 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Chasuble Front with an Orphrey Band

Chasuble Front with an Orphrey Band

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720 (figurative woven silk), ca. 1775 (embroidered orphrey), cut patched and reassembled ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century (needlework), 17th century (damask support)

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble with Orphreys depicting a saint and bishop saint (front), the Virgin and Child, Saint Martin, and Saint Peter (back)

Chasuble with Orphreys depicting a saint and bishop saint (front), the Virgin and Child, Saint Martin, and Saint Peter (back)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15 century (chasuble); first quarter 16th century (orphreys)

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · 17th Century (embroidery), 18th Century (silk), cut, reassembled and reshaped at a later date

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · Second half of the eighteenth century

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble with an Orphrey Band and Cross

Chasuble with an Orphrey Band and Cross

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 15th century (chasuble); late 15th or first half 16th century (orphreys)

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 (embroideries), 1850 (velvet), cut, patched and reassembled at a later date

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550, cut, patched and reassembled at a later date

Public domainThe Met
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. 436 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 23:23 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.