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 “Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:29 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.
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree

Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree

Artist not stated in the record · 16th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Table frontal

Table frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers

Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tapestry or a Painted Wall Hanging, by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Design for a Tapestry or a Painted Wall Hanging

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair), by John Mayhew

Settee (one of a pair)

John Mayhew · 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
Female immortal with a basket

Female immortal with a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Diane, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Diane

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Diane, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Diane

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

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
Tiraz tapestry fragments

Tiraz tapestry fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Weft-woven tapestry (kesi): Three Star Gods and Joy Personified as Two Children

Weft-woven tapestry (kesi): Three Star Gods and Joy Personified as Two Children

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dispatch of the Messenger, by François Boucher

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)

Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Dragonfly and lotus plants

Dragonfly and lotus plants

Artist not stated in the record · 16th--early 17th 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. 1446 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. 4451546 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 13:29 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.