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 “Red-Ground Prayer Rug” — 53 records examined, 20 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.
Red-Ground Prayer Rug

Red-Ground Prayer Rug

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

Public domainThe Met
Mosen

Mosen

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer Rug

Prayer Rug

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Confronted Animal Rug

Confronted Animal Rug

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Lotto' Carpet

'Lotto' Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Palampore

Palampore

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Iceberg Fantasy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Iceberg Fantasy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June–July 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

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

Public domainThe Met
The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer Rug

Prayer Rug

Artist not stated in the record · 1210 AH/1795/96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tent panel

Tent panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer Rug

Prayer Rug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Piper PA-18 Super Cub, by Piper Aircraft Corp.

Piper PA-18 Super Cub

Piper Aircraft Corp. · 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bellini" Carpet

"Bellini" Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart, by Lockheed Aircraft Company

Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart

Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1927-1929

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
Cessna 152 Aerobat, by Cessna Aircraft Company, Inc.

Cessna 152 Aerobat

Cessna Aircraft Company, Inc. · 1977

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
Receiver, Western Wireless, Type 7, Earhart, 1935 Pacific Flight, by Western Wireless

Receiver, Western Wireless, Type 7, Earhart, 1935 Pacific Flight

Western Wireless · 1930-1934

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. 179 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 29 matched · 29 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.