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. 14 shown for “Embroidered Panel with Daoist Magician” — 42 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:20 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.
Embroidered Panel with Daoist Magician

Embroidered Panel with Daoist Magician

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered panels

Embroidered panels

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery, by Unidentified

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery

Unidentified · ca. 1914 - 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pink jersey dress with embroidered shoulder panels by Scott Barrie, by Scott Barrie, American, 1946 - 1993

Pink jersey dress with embroidered shoulder panels by Scott Barrie

Scott Barrie, American, 1946 - 1993 · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory ribbed children's dress with eyelet embroidery, by Unidentified

Ivory ribbed children's dress with eyelet embroidery

Unidentified · 1960s - 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 254721 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-07 23:20 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.