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 Shawl with Paisley Motifs” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:10 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.
Shawl, by Emile-Frédéric Hébert

Shawl

Emile-Frédéric Hébert · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motif

Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

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 Woven Shawl with Paisley Motifs

Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

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 Shawl with Paisley Motif

Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl, by Nadezhda Merlina Manufactory

Shawl

Nadezhda Merlina Manufactory · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motifs

Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Design for Machine-Woven Shawl

Design for Machine-Woven Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1841

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 Woven Shawl with Indianizing Motifs

Design for Woven Shawl with Indianizing Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–49

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Woven Shawls

Two Designs for Woven Shawls

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1865–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for Machine-Woven Shawl

Design for Machine-Woven Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–49

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 353 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 644846 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 07:10 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.