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 “Tile, marsh scene” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:02 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.
Tile, marsh scene

Tile, marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
From a frieze called "The Pines", by Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951

From a frieze called "The Pines"

Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Japanese Cranes Over Waves, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Japanese Cranes Over Waves

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pottery Tile Stove

Design for a Pottery Tile Stove

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Sadler and Green, English

Tile

Sadler and Green, English · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile fragment of clumps of sedge and papyrus plants from the palace of Ramesses II

Tile fragment of clumps of sedge and papyrus plants from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LE DEJEUNÉ, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE DEJEUNÉ

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Decorated with Marsh Scenes

Bowl Decorated with Marsh Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Herman Mueller, German, 1854–1941

Plaque

Herman Mueller, German, 1854–1941 · 1887–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Psyche Bringing Venus a Goblet of Water from the Fountain of Youth, by Merry-Joseph Blondel, French, 1781–1853; active Paris, France 1802–1851

Psyche Bringing Venus a Goblet of Water from the Fountain of Youth

Merry-Joseph Blondel, French, 1781–1853; active Paris, France 1802–1851 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bes head disk with scene of Isis and Horus in marsh on reverse

Bes head disk with scene of Isis and Horus in marsh on reverse

Artist not stated in the record · 525–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942

Tile

Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a papyrus plant

Tile with a papyrus plant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Botanical Sketches, South America, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Botanical Sketches, South America

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1853 or 1857

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. 189 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. 26314 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 06:02 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.