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. 19 shown for “Quilt, Flying Geese pattern” — 54 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:47 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, Flying Geese pattern

Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–50

Public domainThe Met
Wild Goose Chase, by Martha Brownlee

Wild Goose Chase

Martha Brownlee · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Flying Geese pattern, by Mary Spingler Fonderden Van Beuren

Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

Mary Spingler Fonderden Van Beuren · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Flying Geese, by Unidentified

Flying Geese

Unidentified · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koto (箏), by Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan

Koto (箏)

Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pieced Quilt (Honeycomb), by Unidentified

Pieced Quilt (Honeycomb)

Unidentified · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geese and Reeds

Geese and Reeds

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Pieced quilt (Flying Geese), by Unidentified

Pieced quilt (Flying Geese)

Unidentified · ca. 1845-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wild Goose Chase Quilt, by Susan Reed Ruddick

Wild Goose Chase Quilt

Susan Reed Ruddick · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Flying Geese Variation, by Unidentified

Flying Geese Variation

Unidentified · early 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New Year (Nieuwjaar), by Theodorus van Hoytema

New Year (Nieuwjaar)

Theodorus van Hoytema · 1894

Public domainThe Met
1850 - 1875 "Shoo-fly" Pieced Quilt, by unknown

1850 - 1875 "Shoo-fly" Pieced Quilt

unknown · 1850-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christmas Eve (Kerstnacht), by Theodorus van Hoytema

Christmas Eve (Kerstnacht)

Theodorus van Hoytema · 1894

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
Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers

Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Cathedral Window Quilt

Cathedral Window Quilt

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with a Compartment Design

Carpet with a Compartment Design

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Counterpane, Bolton type

Counterpane, Bolton type

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–1835

Public domainThe Met
Coverlet

Coverlet

Artist not stated in the record · 1844

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 143589 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 10:47 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.