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 “Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:20 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.
Fabric, by Chinese

Fabric

Chinese · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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
Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric

Design for a Woven Fabric

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by François Voisin, French, active 18th century

Arabesque Design

François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Motifs for Woven Fabrics

Design for Motifs for Woven Fabrics

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric Motif

Design for a Woven Fabric Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa (part of a set), by Filippo Pelagio Palagi

Sofa (part of a set)

Filippo Pelagio Palagi · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric Motif

Design for a Woven Fabric Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric Motif

Design for a Woven Fabric Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder

Commode

Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Motif of a Woven Fabric

Design for a Motif of a Woven Fabric

Artist not stated in the record · 1815-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of painted silk

Length of painted silk

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

Public domainThe Met
Copies of Romanesque Letters and Motifs for a Woven Fabric

Copies of Romanesque Letters and Motifs for a Woven Fabric

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

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. 886 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 648597 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 09:20 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.