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 bats, butterflies, peonies, and peaches” — 54 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 21:00 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 bats, butterflies, peonies, and peaches

Textile with bats, butterflies, peonies, and peaches

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Woman's robe

Woman's robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Peonies, Plum Blossoms, and Butterflies

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Peonies, Plum Blossoms, and Butterflies

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Fans and Flowers

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Fans and Flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile fragment with peonies and butterflies

Textile fragment with peonies and butterflies

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

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair Strip with Flowers and Decorative Rocks

Chair Strip with Flowers and Decorative Rocks

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

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a peony and butterfly

Tapestry: a peony and butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Peonies and Butterfly

Panel with Peonies and Butterfly

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

Public domainThe Met
Continuous garlands of freesias, peonies, phlox, and morning glories

Continuous garlands of freesias, peonies, phlox, and morning glories

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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
Tureen and Stand, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tureen and Stand

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a Pair of Chair Strips with Auspicious Patterns

One of a Pair of Chair Strips with Auspicious Patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Panel with Daoist Magician

Embroidered Panel with Daoist Magician

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's Ceremonial Robe

Woman's Ceremonial Robe

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 1526642 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 21:00 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.