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 “Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, loose weave” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:02 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.
Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, loose weave

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, loose weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, close weave

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, close weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragments

Carpet fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, irregular weave

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, irregular weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, irregular weave

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, irregular weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment mounted onto a support fabric

Fragment mounted onto a support fabric

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, fine spin, loose weave

Sheet, linen mark, fine spin, loose weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, loose weave

Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, loose weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bands

Bands

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet with linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave

Sheet with linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet

Sheet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet

Sheet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, close weave

Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, close weave

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

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. 52 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. 142071 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-29 08:02 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.