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 “Chintz border” — 60 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:28 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.
Chintz appliquéd quilt

Chintz appliquéd quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Chintz border

Chintz border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chintz appliquéd quilt, by Mary Malvina Cook Taft

Chintz appliquéd quilt

Mary Malvina Cook Taft · ca. 1835–40

Public domainThe Met
Chintz border

Chintz border

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chintz appliqued quilt

Chintz appliqued quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Chintz border

Chintz border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral Chintz Quilt

Floral Chintz Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775, patched, quilted and reassembled in current form ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Pieced Quilt (Honeycomb), by Unidentified

Pieced Quilt (Honeycomb)

Unidentified · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palampore Tree of Life Quilt

Palampore Tree of Life Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Flying Geese, by Unidentified

Flying Geese

Unidentified · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phebe Warner Coverlet, by Sarah Furman Warner Williams

Phebe Warner Coverlet

Sarah Furman Warner Williams · ca. 1803

Public domainThe Met
Petticoat

Petticoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star of Bethlehem Quilt

Star of Bethlehem Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragments

Chintz fragments

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–50

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, pieced

Quilt, pieced

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragments

Chintz fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair seat cover

Chair seat cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kalamkari Rumal (Cover)

Kalamkari Rumal (Cover)

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Curtains

Curtains

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt center, by John Hewson

Quilt center

John Hewson · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1825

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. 20 matched · 20 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. 36245 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-08 09:28 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.