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 with Flowering Plants” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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 with Flowering Plants

Sash with Flowering Plants

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
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

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

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

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

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Flowering Plants and Birds

Vase with Flowering Plants and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Sash or towel

Sash or towel

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Pattern of Flowering Plants

Dish with Pattern of Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Hilt of Leafy Plants

Dagger with Hilt of Leafy Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants

Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Dresden Star Quilt, by Ira Blount

Dresden Star Quilt

Ira Blount · mid 20th-early 21st Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still life with bronze vessels and flowering plants, by Jang Seung-eop (sobriquet: Owon)

Still life with bronze vessels and flowering plants

Jang Seung-eop (sobriquet: Owon) · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar (Tsubo) with Flowering Plant

Jar (Tsubo) with Flowering Plant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Dutchman’s Puzzle Variation Quilt, by Ira Blount

Dutchman’s Puzzle Variation Quilt

Ira Blount · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Water and Plants, by Thomas Fearnley

Study of Water and Plants

Thomas Fearnley · 1837

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with Papyrus Plants and Signs

Scarab with Papyrus Plants and Signs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

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. 718 matched · 24 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. 4151685 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 02:28 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.