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. 22 shown for “Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion” — 50 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:18 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.
Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion

Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso), by Unknown

Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso)

Unknown · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover with Unicorns

Cover with Unicorns

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Banner

Banner

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heraldic Composition

Heraldic Composition

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Cartouche Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Lion Strangler

The Lion Strangler

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with Virtues

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with Virtues

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design with a Centaur and a Lion Fighting, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Panel Design with a Centaur and a Lion Fighting

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1651

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720 (figurative woven silk), ca. 1775 (embroidered orphrey), cut patched and reassembled ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coverlet

Coverlet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sewing case

Sewing case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's gloves

Woman's gloves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1554777 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 01:18 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.