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 “Circular textile with two phoenixes” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:25 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.
Circular textile with two phoenixes

Circular textile with two phoenixes

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

Public domainThe Met
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
La liberte Americain, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

La liberte Americain

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1783–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tupu (pin), by Inca artist(s)

Tupu (pin)

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Corner with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Corner with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank badge with two phoenixes

Rank badge with two phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile with dragons and phoenixes

Textile with dragons and phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Phoenixes and Flowers

Panel with Phoenixes and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Louis XVI restaurateur de la liberte, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Louis XVI restaurateur de la liberte

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portions of a Cuirass

Portions of a Cuirass

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Bookmark

Bookmark

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. 298 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. 286663 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-10 05:25 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.