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. 16 shown for “Dress Fragments” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:59 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.
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dress fragment

Dress fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Dress fragments

Dress fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress Fragments

Dress Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Dress panel fragment

Dress panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress Fragments

Dress Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress Fragments

Dress Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Dress Fragments

Dress Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Border Fragment

Border Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Part of a dress and twenty-five fragments

Part of a dress and twenty-five fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Part of the marble stele (grave marker) of Kalliades

Part of the marble stele (grave marker) of Kalliades

Artist not stated in the record · 550–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dress Fragment

Dress Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
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. 191 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 61140 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:59 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.