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. 22 shown for “Fragment from a Coptic Hanging” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 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.
Fragment from a Coptic Hanging

Fragment from a Coptic Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostrakon with a Letter from Ananias to Priests

Ostrakon with a Letter from Ananias to Priests

Artist not stated in the record · 600

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 500–800

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

Fragment of a Stela

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Female Figure

Fragment of a Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Male Torso with a Tree Trunk

Fragment of a Male Torso with a Tree Trunk

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus Fragments of the Canon Tables

Papyrus Fragments of the Canon Tables

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus Fragments with Seth on Mount Sinai

Papyrus Fragments with Seth on Mount Sinai

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic

Fragment of tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging

Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of bed hanging, by Clerambault, Alençon, France, 1811–1847

Fragment of bed hanging

Clerambault, Alençon, France, 1811–1847 · 1796–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Insert from a Coptic Garment

Insert from a Coptic Garment

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Wall Hanging with confronted cocks and running dogs

Fragment of Wall Hanging with confronted cocks and running dogs

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

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. 744 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1972276 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:36 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.