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 or Embroidered Borders” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:18 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.
Border Fragment

Border Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch and Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders

Sketch and Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders

Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

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 or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse, by Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona

Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse

Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · central panel and outer border: 17th century; inner border: second half of 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse, by Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona

Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse

Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture, by Mary Wright

Embroidered Picture

Mary Wright · ca. 1754

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk, by James Leman (British, 1688–1745)

Panel of brocaded silk

James Leman (British, 1688–1745) · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border, of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border, of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

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. 1835 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. 702407 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 14:18 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.