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. 23 shown for “Sash ends” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 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.
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sash ends

Sash ends

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1628–58

Public domainThe Met
Prophet Noble Drew Ali, Founder of Moorish Science Temple of America

Prophet Noble Drew Ali, Founder of Moorish Science Temple of America

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sash, by Leo Madjarski

Sash

Leo Madjarski · 1767–80

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Orange floral print sash, by Unidentified

Orange floral print sash

Unidentified · 1965 - 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Window Sash

Window Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sash with Flowering Plants

Sash with Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sash () with a Floral Border

Sash () with a Floral Border

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
End Panel of a Sash

End Panel of a Sash

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kilt or Sash

Kilt or Sash

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror-bearer, by Maya artist(s)

Mirror-bearer

Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer with a Fan, by Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Fan

Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Sash or towel

Sash or towel

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lovers, by Riza-yi 'Abbasi

The Lovers

Riza-yi 'Abbasi · dated 1039 AH/1630 CE

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. 61 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. 57523 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 04:00 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.