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 “Square Cloth with Feathered Border” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 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.
Square Cloth with Feathered Border

Square Cloth with Feathered Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1200 – 1400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

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

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Tablecloth

Tablecloth

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered Panel

Feathered Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Blue and white bandana owned by Melvin Van Peebles, by Unidentified

Blue and white bandana owned by Melvin Van Peebles

Unidentified · 2000 - 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Printing block

Printing block

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tapa cloth

Tapa cloth

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Patchwork Quilt with Inner and Outer Border, by Ira Blount

Patchwork Quilt with Inner and Outer Border

Ira Blount · 1996

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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 327789 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 16:36 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.