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 Textile with a Forested Landscape” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:39 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 Textile with a Forested Landscape

Fragment of Textile with a Forested Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of William Duguid, by Prince Demah Barnes

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunters in a Landscape, by Anonymous, 16th century

Hunters in a Landscape

Anonymous, 16th century · ca. 1575–95

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered Tunic, by Chimú artist(s)

Feathered Tunic

Chimú artist(s) · 1400 - 1700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Textile with bead embroidery

Textile with bead embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Gillis van Coninxloo

Landscape

Gillis van Coninxloo · late 16th, early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crib of the Infant Jesus

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Wari artist

Tunic

Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Le marchand d'Orvietan, by Dubern & Cie.

Le marchand d'Orvietan

Dubern & Cie. · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th 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. 4190 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 4003755 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 20:39 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.