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 “Embroidered bed curtain” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:22 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 bed curtain

Embroidered bed curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1700

Public domainThe Met
Lit à Chaire, à Precher, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à Chaire, à Precher

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

Public domainThe Met
Bed curtain

Bed curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler, by Julia Ann Fitch

Sampler

Julia Ann Fitch · 1807

Public domainThe Met
Bed curtain

Bed curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bed valances and side curtains

Bed valances and side curtains

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Bed curtain

Bed curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of curtains

Pair of curtains

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lit a dome en Chaire a precher a quatre colonnes vû par le pied, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit a dome en Chaire a precher a quatre colonnes vû par le pied

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Curtain

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain

Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain

Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Curtain panel

Curtain panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain

Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Curtain panel

Curtain panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain

Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lit à la Turque, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à la Turque

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain

Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Man's Living Room, by S. Tolstoi, Russian, active 1850–1899

Interior of a Man's Living Room

S. Tolstoi, Russian, active 1850–1899 · possibly 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain

Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lit à la Turque, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à la Turque

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 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. 385 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 17987 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 2026-08-29 07:22 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.