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 a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:50 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.
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
Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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 Fabric, Unfinished

Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

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

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Kaftan Back

Fragment of a Kaftan Back

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

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

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Fragment

Border Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandos, by Owen Jones

Chandos

Owen Jones · ca. 1873

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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. 425 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2119756 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 11:50 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.