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. 22 shown for “Corded quilt” — 57 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:24 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.
Corded quilt

Corded quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed and corded quilt

Stuffed and corded quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Quilting

Quilting

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed and corded quilt

Stuffed and corded quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corded crib quilt

Corded crib quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
La Danseuse de Corde, by Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848

La Danseuse de Corde

Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848 · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed and corded crib quilt

Stuffed and corded crib quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Black velvet quilted jacket with gold trim by Jay Smith, by Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986

Black velvet quilted jacket with gold trim by Jay Smith

Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · ca. 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wholecloth whitework quilt, by Sarah Cook

Wholecloth whitework quilt

Sarah Cook · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Black silk velvet mantle with cording, by B. Altman and Company, 1865 - 1989

Black silk velvet mantle with cording

B. Altman and Company, 1865 - 1989 · 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed quilt

Stuffed quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1800

Public domainThe Met
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, pieced

Quilt, pieced

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Green cap with veil and feathers

Green cap with veil and feathers

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing jacket

Dressing jacket

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Public domainThe Met
Evening coat from the collection of Lucy Cordice, by Unidentified

Evening coat from the collection of Lucy Cordice

Unidentified · 1870-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Marseilles type

Quilt, Marseilles type

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1820

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Army M-1879 junior officer's dress coat worn by John Hanks Alexander, by John G. Haas, American

U.S. Army M-1879 junior officer's dress coat worn by John Hanks Alexander

John G. Haas, American · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2, by Rudolph Ackermann, London

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2

Rudolph Ackermann, London · July–December 1809

Public domainThe Met
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 4 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. 8410 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:24 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.