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 “Geometric Pattern Imitating Warp Ikat (Kasuri)” — 58 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 03:25 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.
Summer Kimono

Summer Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Geometric Pattern Imitating Warp Ikat (Kasuri)

Geometric Pattern Imitating Warp Ikat (Kasuri)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Pinks, Umbrellas, Maple Leaves, Lanterns, and Splashed Geometric Motifs

Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Pinks, Umbrellas, Maple Leaves, Lanterns, and Splashed Geometric Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiraz Fragment from an Ikat Shawl

Tiraz Fragment from an Ikat Shawl

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

Public domainThe Met
Tapis (skirt)

Tapis (skirt)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Stylized Rosettes

Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Stylized Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Kamben geringsing (ceremonial cloth)

Kamben geringsing (ceremonial cloth)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Cherry Blossoms, Floral Medallions, Birds, and Vertical Splashes

Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Cherry Blossoms, Floral Medallions, Birds, and Vertical Splashes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampot chawng kbun (hip wrapper)

Sampot chawng kbun (hip wrapper)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Round Fans (Uchiwa), Bamboo, and Interrupted Stripes

Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Round Fans (Uchiwa), Bamboo, and Interrupted Stripes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of Cloth for Bedding with Pattern of Bamboo

Piece of Cloth for Bedding with Pattern of Bamboo

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses

Woman's Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life

Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapis, ceremonial skirt with squid pattern (cumi-cumi) iconography

Tapis, ceremonial skirt with squid pattern (cumi-cumi) iconography

Artist not stated in the record · Probably 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe à la française

Robe à la française

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–65

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis), by Lampung artist

Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis)

Lampung artist · 18th century or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 23065 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-07 03:25 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.