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 a Sleeve Band” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:02 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 a Sleeve Band

Fragment of a Sleeve Band

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 300–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richly Decorated Tunic

Richly Decorated Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve bands

Sleeve bands

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE or ca. 945–924 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve band

Sleeve band

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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
Sleeve band

Sleeve band

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve band

Sleeve band

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Kaftan Back

Fragment of a Kaftan Back

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve band

Sleeve band

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary of Burgundy, by Master H.A. or A.H.

Mary of Burgundy

Master H.A. or A.H. · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Panel for a shirt front or sleeve

Panel for a shirt front or sleeve

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
White cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery, by Unidentified

White cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery

Unidentified · ca.1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sleeve fragment

Sleeve fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sleeve Fragment with a Band Decorated with an Animal

Sleeve Fragment with a Band Decorated with an Animal

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered lace sleeve fragment

Embroidered lace sleeve fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1828-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Nurse's jacket and pants

Nurse's jacket and pants

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 2020 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. 3863554 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 01:02 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.