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 “Orphrey Band” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:21 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.
Orphrey Band

Orphrey Band

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble Front with an Orphrey Band

Chasuble Front with an Orphrey Band

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble with an Orphrey Band and Cross

Chasuble with an Orphrey Band and Cross

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 15th century (chasuble); late 15th or first half 16th century (orphreys)

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidery with the Annunciation

Embroidery with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation

The Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary chasuble

Funerary chasuble

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

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four fragments of Orphrey Bands Made into a Panel

Four fragments of Orphrey Bands Made into a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 16th or 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble with Orphreys depicting a saint and bishop saint (front), the Virgin and Child, Saint Martin, and Saint Peter (back)

Chasuble with Orphreys depicting a saint and bishop saint (front), the Virgin and Child, Saint Martin, and Saint Peter (back)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15 century (chasuble); first quarter 16th century (orphreys)

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blessing Bishop (Saint Nicholas of Bari)

Blessing Bishop (Saint Nicholas of Bari)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey from a Chasuble

Orphrey from a Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an orphrey band

Fragment of an orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey from a Chasuble (?)

Orphrey from a Chasuble (?)

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 27 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. 14521 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 2026-08-26 23:21 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.