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 with Saz Leave, Tulips, and Hyacinth Flowers” — 60 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:22 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 with Saz Leave, Tulips, and Hyacinth Flowers

Tile with Saz Leave, Tulips, and Hyacinth Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908

Tile

Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Flowers: Single Hyacinth, Double Hyacinth, Single Anemone, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Designs for Flowers: Single Hyacinth, Double Hyacinth, Single Anemone

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Panel

Tile Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Border Tiles with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Design

Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses

Dish with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–80

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Flowers: Single Julienne, Pyramidal Bellflower, Artere Petal, White Lily, Yellow Tulip, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Designs for Flowers: Single Julienne, Pyramidal Bellflower, Artere Petal, White Lily, Yellow Tulip

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

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
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1754–1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Two Nightingales in a Rose Bush", Double-Sided Illustrated Leaf from an Ottoman Album, by 'Abdullah Bukhari

"Two Nightingales in a Rose Bush", Double-Sided Illustrated Leaf from an Ottoman Album

'Abdullah Bukhari · ca. 1725–45

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917

Tile

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · ca. 1888–98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 2 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. 1526068 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 2026-08-27 16:22 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.