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 with Geometric Pattern and Benedictory Inscriptions” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 03:14 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 with Geometric Pattern and Benedictory Inscriptions

Panel with Geometric Pattern and Benedictory Inscriptions

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

Public domainThe Met
Brown and blue fabric panel with geometric pattern, by Unidentified

Brown and blue fabric panel with geometric pattern

Unidentified · mid to late 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Pattern book

Pattern book

Artist not stated in the record · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Geometric floral and paisley printed handbag with bamboo handle, by Unidentified

Geometric floral and paisley printed handbag with bamboo handle

Unidentified · 1960s - 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Rectangular Box

Panel from a Rectangular Box

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Tapis (skirt)

Tapis (skirt)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with Queen Kunigunde

Stained Glass Panel with Queen Kunigunde

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Public domainThe Met
Patola

Patola

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virginal

Virginal

Artist not stated in the record · 1540

Public domainThe Met
Melton, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Melton

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Sarong fragment

Sarong fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with Emperor Henry II

Stained Glass Panel with Emperor Henry II

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Kioto, by Bates, Gildea & Walker, active 1879 – 1881

Kioto

Bates, Gildea & Walker, active 1879 – 1881 · ca. 1879–81

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
Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern, by Unidentified

Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Yosemite, by Thomas and Richard Boote, founded 1842

Yosemite

Thomas and Richard Boote, founded 1842 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 344 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1523124 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 03:14 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.