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. 21 shown for “Stuffed quilt” — 57 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:22 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.
Stuffed quilt

Stuffed quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1800

Public domainThe Met
Bodice fronts

Bodice fronts

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed and corded quilt

Stuffed and corded quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Fables of Fontaine, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Fables of Fontaine

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed and corded quilt

Stuffed and corded quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered and stuffed whitework quilt

Embroidered and stuffed whitework quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuffed and corded crib quilt

Stuffed and corded crib quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wholecloth whitework quilt, by Sarah Cook

Wholecloth whitework quilt

Sarah Cook · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wholecloth whitework quilt

Wholecloth whitework quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Silk Quilt

Silk Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wholecloth quilt

Wholecloth quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

Public domainThe Met
Cap fragment

Cap fragment

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whole cloth quilt, by Unknown

Whole cloth quilt

Unknown · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corded crib quilt

Corded crib quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Star of Bethlehem Quilt

Star of Bethlehem Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Quilt, pieced

Quilt, pieced

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 2337 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:22 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.