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 “Inlay fragment, patten of diamonds formed from smaller squares” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:27 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.
Inlay fragment, patten of diamonds formed from smaller squares

Inlay fragment, patten of diamonds formed from smaller squares

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, small colored squares forming a diamond pattern

Inlay fragment, small colored squares forming a diamond pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlays and Shrine Elements

Inlays and Shrine Elements

Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Pendant with Half Figures

Design for Pendant with Half Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for Three Brooches

Design for Three Brooches

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Donor Presented by a Saint, by Dieric Bouts

A Donor Presented by a Saint

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1460–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Comb

Design for a Comb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, by Bernard van Orley

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–38

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Design for a Coronet

Design for a Coronet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Michael and Francis, by Juan de Flandes

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Comb, Earring and Necklace

Design for a Comb, Earring and Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · early 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. 42 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. 2979682 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 06:27 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.