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 an Embroidered Vertical Border” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:52 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.
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 an Embroidered Vertical Border

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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 an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1775–1790

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 an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1775–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture, by Elizabeth Folwell's School

Embroidered Picture

Elizabeth Folwell's School · ca. 1800

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

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1775–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Fragment

Border Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–15

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 an Embroidered or Woven Vertical Border

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1805–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Design no. 533 for an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design no. 533 for an Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1785–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, by Christopher Dresser

Bottle

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1862

Public domainThe Met
Project for an embroidered vertical border

Project for an embroidered vertical border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Courting flute (siyotanka)

Courting flute (siyotanka)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Project for an embroidered vertical border

Project for an embroidered vertical border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1808

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

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

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler, by Charlotte Gardner

Sampler

Charlotte Gardner · December 23, 1813

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

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

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

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

Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 2117 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. 592351 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 10:52 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.