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 “Length of bizarre silk” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:34 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.
Length of bizarre silk

Length of bizarre silk

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length, by Séguin et Cie

Length

Séguin et Cie · ca. 1805–15

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of painted silk

Length of painted silk

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1705–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length

Length

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dressing gown

Dressing gown

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length

Length

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk, by James Leman (British, 1688–1745)

Panel of brocaded silk

James Leman (British, 1688–1745) · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1706–09

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse

Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair), by Georges Jacob

Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)

Georges Jacob · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length, by Anna Maria Garthwaite

Length

Anna Maria Garthwaite · 1752

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length, by Kawashima Weaving Co.

Length

Kawashima Weaving Co. · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of furnishing fabric

Length of furnishing fabric

Artist not stated in the record · 1830s

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th 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. 802 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3073954 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 2026-08-29 15:34 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.