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 Dragons” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 17:25 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 Dragons

Textile with Stripes and Confronted Dragons

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
Sword Guard in the Form of Confronted Dragons

Sword Guard in the Form of Confronted Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers

Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clothing box decorated with dragons

Clothing box decorated with dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Meissen Manufactory

Coffeepot

Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile with Stripes and Confronted Birds

Textile with Stripes and Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

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

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th 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. 505 matched · 24 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. 1573943 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 17:25 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.