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 Section” — 55 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:00 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 section made into cushion

Orphrey section made into cushion

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey section made into cushion

Orphrey section made into cushion

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey section made into cushion

Orphrey section made into cushion

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey Section

Orphrey Section

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey Section Made into a Cushion

Orphrey Section Made into a Cushion

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of Orphrey

Section of Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Orphrey Sections made into a runner; Top of an Orphrey

Two Orphrey Sections made into a runner; Top of an Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th or early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey fragment

Orphrey fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Orphrey Sections made into a Hanging or Cover

Two Orphrey Sections made into a Hanging or Cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel made from Orphrey Sections

Panel made from Orphrey Sections

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey fragment

Orphrey fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orphrey fragment

Orphrey fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band fragment

Orphrey band fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Collapsible Chair

Collapsible Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 16th or 17th century (textiles); early 20th century (woodwork)

Public domainThe Met
Cope, hood and orphrey

Cope, hood and orphrey

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 26611 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 18:00 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.