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 “Pattern Book” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:55 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.
Pattern Book

Pattern Book

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–70

Public domainThe Met
La gloria et l'honore de ponti tagliati, e ponti in aere

La gloria et l'honore de ponti tagliati, e ponti in aere

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Order Book of Kosode Patterns (Chūmon no hiinagata/Hiinagata chūmon chō), by Imura Katsukichi

Order Book of Kosode Patterns (Chūmon no hiinagata/Hiinagata chūmon chō)

Imura Katsukichi · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrations for an Allegorical Pattern Book, by Antoine Borel

Illustrations for an Allegorical Pattern Book

Antoine Borel · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrations for an Allegorical Pattern Book, by Antoine Borel

Illustrations for an Allegorical Pattern Book

Antoine Borel · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sewing instruction book samples

Sewing instruction book samples

Artist not stated in the record · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Pattern Sample Book

Textile Pattern Sample Book

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sample, by Johann Friedrich Netto, German

Sample

Johann Friedrich Netto, German · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier table, by Joseph B. Barry and Son

Pier table

Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Pattern Book (On-Hiinagata), vol. 2

Kosode Pattern Book (On-Hiinagata), vol. 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1667

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Pattern Book (On-Hiinagata) vol. 1

Kosode Pattern Book (On-Hiinagata) vol. 1

Artist not stated in the record · 1667

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pietra dura table top

Pietra dura table top

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings, by Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721

Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings

Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721 · 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Card table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1805–12

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings, by Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721

Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings

Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721 · 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–90

Public domainThe Met
Plusieurs Pieces et Ornements Darquebuzerie Les plus en Usage tire des Ouvrages de Laurent le Languedoc Arquebuziers Du Roy et Dautres Ornement Inventé et gravé Par Simonin, by Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705

Plusieurs Pieces et Ornements Darquebuzerie Les plus en Usage tire des Ouvrages de Laurent le Languedoc Arquebuziers Du Roy et Dautres Ornement Inventé et gravé Par Simonin

Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705 · 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse with Christ in Majesty and the Lamb of God

Chasse with Christ in Majesty and the Lamb of God

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–90

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings, by Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721

Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings

Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721 · 1705

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. 2345 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. 33896 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 07:55 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.