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 “Textile fragment with pattern of chrysanthemums on hexagonal lattice (Kikkō)” — 58 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:20 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 pattern of chrysanthemums on hexagonal lattice (Kikkō)

Textile fragment with pattern of chrysanthemums on hexagonal lattice (Kikkō)

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern

Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Fragment

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Velvet with Figural Imagery

Velvet with Figural Imagery

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ocean Wave Hexagons

Ocean Wave Hexagons

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Geometric Pattern

Inrō with Geometric Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner Block from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern of Lines and Rosettes

Corner Block from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern of Lines and Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ribbon Lattice with Pinecone (?)

Ribbon Lattice with Pinecone (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment with Vine Lattice and Birds

Textile Fragment with Vine Lattice and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White

Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile fragment with repeating pattern of cranes and chrysanthemums

Textile fragment with repeating pattern of cranes and chrysanthemums

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern

Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th 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. 18 matched · 18 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. 3050708 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 2026-09-03 05:20 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.