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 “Interlaced circles” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 09:07 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.
Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles

Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles

Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Interlaced circles

Interlaced circles

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of andirons

Pair of andirons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Interlaced Circles

Interlaced Circles

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with an Interlacing Pattern of Circles with Pearls over a Stippled Background, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with an Interlacing Pattern of Circles with Pearls over a Stippled Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Fifth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Six-pointed Stars, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Fifth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Six-pointed Stars

Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Sixth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Wreaths, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Sixth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Wreaths

Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Sixth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Wreaths, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Sixth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Wreaths

Albrecht Dürer · before 1521

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Design with a Seamless Pattern of Circles and Pearls, by Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Textile Design with a Seamless Pattern of Circles and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Fourth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with a Round Medallion in its Center, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Fourth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with a Round Medallion in its Center

Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Public domainThe Met
Traditional Abstract Motifs

Traditional Abstract Motifs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Fourth Knot”, Interlaced Roundel with a Round Medallion in its Center, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Fourth Knot”, Interlaced Roundel with a Round Medallion in its Center

Albrecht Dürer · before 1521

Public domainThe Met
Compartimens pour differens Usage tel que Marqueteries, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Compartimens pour differens Usage tel que Marqueteries

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Second Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with an Amazon Shield in its Center, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Second Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with an Amazon Shield in its Center

Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The First Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with an Oblong Panel in its Center, by Albrecht Dürer

“The First Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with an Oblong Panel in its Center

Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Public domainThe Met
African Marigold, by Morris & Co., London, England

African Marigold

Morris & Co., London, England · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“The Third Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Eight Wreaths and a Scalloped Shield in its Center, by Albrecht Dürer

“The Third Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Eight Wreaths and a Scalloped Shield in its Center

Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Public domainThe Met
Tablecloth

Tablecloth

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. 87 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. 6980 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 09:07 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.