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 Wall Tile” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:01 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 Wall Tile

Square Wall Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Tile

Square Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 824 AH/1421 CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

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

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York

Ceiling paper

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

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
Sidewall, by Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

Sidewall

Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Worsham-Rockefeller House

Worsham-Rockefeller House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Tile

Square Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1915

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. 1084 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. 40217 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 04:01 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.