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 “Fragment of Indian chintz” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:42 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 of Indian chintz

Fragment of Indian chintz

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an Ivory Comb

Fragment of an Ivory Comb

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chintz strip

Chintz strip

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragments

Chintz fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Attendants at an Imperial Durbar, by Hunhar

Attendants at an Imperial Durbar

Hunhar · ca. 1645

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragments

Chintz fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral Chintz Quilt

Floral Chintz Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775, patched, quilted and reassembled in current form ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narasimha, the Man-Lion Incarnation of Vishnu, Slaying the Evil King Hiranyakashipu

Narasimha, the Man-Lion Incarnation of Vishnu, Slaying the Evil King Hiranyakashipu

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

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Panel of Chintz

Textile Panel of Chintz

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chintz appliquéd quilt, by Mary Malvina Cook Taft

Chintz appliquéd quilt

Mary Malvina Cook Taft · ca. 1835–40

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chintz Appliqué Quilt

Chintz Appliqué Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Chintz fragment

Chintz fragment

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. 142 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2977356 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 07:42 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.