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 an Ottoman Court Carpet” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:33 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 an Ottoman Court Carpet

Fragment of an Ottoman Court Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saber

Saber

Artist not stated in the record · 1522–66

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Five Medallion Carpet

Five Medallion Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment, by Bigelow Carpet Company, American

Carpet fragment

Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment, by Bigelow Carpet Company, American

Carpet fragment

Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bellini" Carpet

"Bellini" Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · probably first half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ottoman Court Carpet

Ottoman Court Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court official from a commemorative altar, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Court official from a commemorative altar

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orpheus Attacked by the Maenads, by Suzanne de Court

Orpheus Attacked by the Maenads

Suzanne de Court · first quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1832

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. 517 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. 2882283 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 20:33 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.