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 Panel with Wavy-vine Design” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 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 Panel with Wavy-vine Design

Tile Panel with Wavy-vine Design

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile panel composed of six square tiles

Tile panel composed of six square tiles

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 824 AH/1421 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile panel

Tile panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Textile, by Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818

Design for a Textile

Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818 · ca. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Frieze

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star- and Hexagonal-Tile Panel

Star- and Hexagonal-Tile Panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Liberty Wall Paper Company, Schuylerville, New York

Frieze

Liberty Wall Paper Company, Schuylerville, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design

Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Tile with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–55

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star-Shaped Tile

Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 80 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. 238 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 2026-08-27 21:35 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.