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 peaches, plums, birds, bats and deer” — 52 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:26 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 peaches, plums, birds, bats and deer

Textile fragment with peaches, plums, birds, bats and deer

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Rosebush, Birds, and Deer Pattern

Panel with Rosebush, Birds, and Deer Pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th 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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Egret

Rank Badge with Egret

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

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
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Fragment

Kosode Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Seley Carpet

The Seley Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heraldic Composition

Heraldic Composition

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's Informal Jacket with Antiquities in Medallions

Woman's Informal Jacket with Antiquities in Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting

Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze Tile with Two Hunters

Frieze Tile with Two Hunters

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Emperor Shah Jahan with his Son Dara Shikoh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Nanha

"The Emperor Shah Jahan with his Son Dara Shikoh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Nanha · verso: ca. 1620; recto: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 2104927 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-07 23:26 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.