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 “Set of four wall tiles” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:25 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.
Set of four wall tiles

Set of four wall tiles

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twelve-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile

Twelve-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 846 AH/1442–43 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light wall brackets

Set of four three-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · dated 707 AH/1308 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 755 AH/1354–55 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 1085 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2873715 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 01:25 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.