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. 17 shown for “Quilt, Eagle pattern” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:49 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.
Quilt, Eagle pattern

Quilt, Eagle pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1837–50

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle, by Meissen Manufactory

Eagle

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1731

Public domainThe Met
1825 - 1840 Susan Strong's "Great Seal" Quilt, by Strong, Susan

1825 - 1840 Susan Strong's "Great Seal" Quilt

Strong, Susan · 1825-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Nine-patch pattern quilt owned by the Russell family of Lyles Station, by Katie Mariah Hardiman, American, 1877 - 1954

Nine-patch pattern quilt owned by the Russell family of Lyles Station

Katie Mariah Hardiman, American, 1877 - 1954 · 1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Four Eagles pattern

Quilt, Four Eagles pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Cathedral Window Quilt

Cathedral Window Quilt

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle transformation figure, by Olmec artist(s)

Eagle transformation figure

Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lectern in the Form of an Eagle, by Jehan Aert van Tricht

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle

Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Crib quilt, appliqued

Crib quilt, appliqued

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey

Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

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

Public domainThe Met
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Quilt, Contained Crazy pattern, by Nancy Doughty

Quilt, Contained Crazy pattern

Nancy Doughty · 1872

Public domainThe Met
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. 353 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 32643 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:49 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.