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 “Fan fragment” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:44 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.
Fan fragment

Fan fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The upper portion from a palmiform-shaped fan

The upper portion from a palmiform-shaped fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Fan

Fragment of a Fan

Artist not stated in the record · probably 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Fragment

Border Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieratic Papyrus fragment

Hieratic Papyrus fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1181 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta medallion

Terracotta medallion

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 300–100 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Fragment

Kosode Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tsujigahana Textile with Horizontal Stripes, Flowering Plants, Fans, Snowflakes, Clouds, and Bellflowers

Tsujigahana Textile with Horizontal Stripes, Flowering Plants, Fans, Snowflakes, Clouds, and Bellflowers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lingnania chungii (McClure) McClure

Lingnania chungii (McClure) McClure

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 650–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion

Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Ardisia quinquegona var. hainanensis E. Walker

Ardisia quinquegona var. hainanensis E. Walker

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms

Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–first half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ardisia replicata E. Walker

Ardisia replicata E. Walker

Artist not stated in the record

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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 46608 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 13:44 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.