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 “Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:31 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.
Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern

Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Beaded blue chiffon fabric fragment, by Agnes Levy Johnson, American

Beaded blue chiffon fabric fragment

Agnes Levy Johnson, American · ca. 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase Carpet

Vase Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
Sparrows and Bamboo leaves and other Blossoms on a Checked Pattern

Sparrows and Bamboo leaves and other Blossoms on a Checked Pattern

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Blossoms on a grid

Blossoms on a grid

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fragments

Waistcoat fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

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

"Lotto" Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90

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. 2163 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. 4071092 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 2026-08-28 00:31 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.