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. 21 shown for “Fragment of a sampler” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:42 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.
Sampler, by Julia Ann Fitch

Sampler

Julia Ann Fitch · 1807

Public domainThe Met
Sampler fragment

Sampler fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler, by Mary Ann Stauffer

Sampler

Mary Ann Stauffer · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Sampler fragment

Sampler fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

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

Fragment of a sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler fragments

Sampler fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

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
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Queen's Face

Fragment of a Queen's Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler of embroidery and crochet

Sampler of embroidery and crochet

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1215

Public domainThe Met
Sewing instruction book samples

Sewing instruction book samples

Artist not stated in the record · 1829

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

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet

Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile

Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

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. 27009 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3862093 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:42 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.