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 “Prayer Rug with Coupled Columns” — 55 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 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.
Prayer Rug with Coupled Columns

Prayer Rug with Coupled Columns

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Corsica, by Wood & Challinor

Corsica

Wood & Challinor · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Transylvanian prayer rug

Transylvanian prayer rug

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Parthenon at Sunset, Athens, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Parthenon at Sunset, Athens

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer Rug with Triple Arch Design

Prayer Rug with Triple Arch Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Imagined Landscape with Ruined Temple, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Imagined Landscape with Ruined Temple

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer Rug with Triple Arch Design

Prayer Rug with Triple Arch Design

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Parthenon and Erechtheion, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Parthenon and Erechtheion, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Double-Ended Triple Niche

Carpet with Double-Ended Triple Niche

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Niche and Flower Design

Carpet with Niche and Flower Design

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls

Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Decoration for portrait of Pope Pius VI and royal couple, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Decoration for portrait of Pope Pius VI and royal couple

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late13th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration for the marriage of Prince Paluzzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Decoration for the marriage of Prince Paluzzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

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 · 2 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. 253801 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 19:21 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.