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 “Panel of Four Calligraphic Tiles” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 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.
Panel of Four Calligraphic Tiles

Panel of Four Calligraphic Tiles

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile panel

Tile panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Panel with Calligraphic Inscription

Tile Panel with Calligraphic Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1000 AH/1591–92 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of 4 cuenca tiles

Panel of 4 cuenca tiles

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Panel

Tile Panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lake Biwa in Four Seasons, by Nukina Kaioku

Lake Biwa in Four Seasons

Nukina Kaioku · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligraphic Roundel, inscribed "Ya 'Aziz" (Oh Mighty)

Calligraphic Roundel, inscribed "Ya 'Aziz" (Oh Mighty)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dedicatory Inscription from a Mosque

Dedicatory Inscription from a Mosque

Artist not stated in the record · dated 905 AH/1500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 104 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. 2860821 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 01:01 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.