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, small colored squares forming a diamond pattern” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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, 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
Patchwork quilt top

Patchwork quilt top

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play, by Jean Georges (or George)

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play

Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with portrait of Catherine II (1729–1796), Empress of Russia, by Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with portrait of Catherine II (1729–1796), Empress of Russia

Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1774–75, minaiture ca. 1786

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, pattern of squares

Inlay, pattern of squares

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, conventional floral pattern

Inlay fragment, conventional floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rosette

Inlay fragment, rosette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, network pattern with centers

Inlay fragment, network pattern with centers

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, border pattern of feather design

Inlay fragment, border pattern of feather design

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds

Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semi-eliptical inlay, pattern formed by fused bars of diamonds, circles, dentelations

Semi-eliptical inlay, pattern formed by fused bars of diamonds, circles, dentelations

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th 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. 669 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1880891 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 03:29 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.