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 with Stripes and Confronted Birds” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 17:21 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 with Stripes and Confronted Birds

Textile with Stripes and Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Confronted Animal Rug

Confronted Animal Rug

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)

Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird-shaped vessel

Bird-shaped vessel

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life

Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered Tunic, by Chimú artist(s)

Feathered Tunic

Chimú artist(s) · 1400 - 1700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Strawberry Thief, by Morris & Co., London, England

Strawberry Thief

Morris & Co., London, England · designed 1883, printed ca. 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Wari artist

Tunic

Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tiraz fragment

Tiraz fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 1140 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. 2078531 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 2026-09-07 17:21 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.