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. 23 shown for “Limb with garment fringe, pleating” — 52 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:28 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.
Limb with garment fringe, pleating

Limb with garment fringe, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Hanging

Design for a Window Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limb with garment, pleating

Limb with garment, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miniature copy of First Lady Hayes's evening gown by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Miniature copy of First Lady Hayes's evening gown by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1957-1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche

Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment and shawl fringe, pleating

Body with garment and shawl fringe, pleating

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black cassock with band collar, by Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947

Black cassock with band collar

Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947 · mid to late-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
limb fragment with faint garment pleats

limb fragment with faint garment pleats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breast (?) with pleating and shawl fringe

Breast (?) with pleating and shawl fringe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated garment with selvage at ankle

Pleated garment with selvage at ankle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe

Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ankle with selvage of a garment, diagonal pleat above.

Ankle with selvage of a garment, diagonal pleat above.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery, by Unidentified

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery

Unidentified · ca. 1914 - 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Official with Pleated Costume

Official with Pleated Costume

Artist not stated in the record · middle 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cream pencil skirt with pleats, by Unidentified

Cream pencil skirt with pleats

Unidentified · 1960s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth

Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture plaque carved in relief with a female figure

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 12 matched · 12 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. 271435 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 19:28 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.