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 “Various Patterns Motif” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:38 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.
Shirt, by Moche artist(s)

Shirt

Moche artist(s) · 500–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Various Patterns Motif

Various Patterns Motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Wari artist

Tunic

Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Various motifs and a stamp

Various motifs and a stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · May 11, 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Felines

Tunic with Felines

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1550

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Tunic

Tapestry Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Design for Doors

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with floral patterns

Incense burner with floral patterns

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

Public domainThe Met
Sashiko Motifs

Sashiko Motifs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with floral patterns

Incense burner with floral patterns

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

Public domainThe Met
Baby's cap (back and side)

Baby's cap (back and side)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding ensemble with cranes, pines, and rising-cloud patterns

Wedding ensemble with cranes, pines, and rising-cloud patterns

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koto (箏), by Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan

Koto (箏)

Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by The Art Wall Paper Mills

Ceiling paper

The Art Wall Paper Mills · 1907–1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Modèles à l’usage des Bordures, Commodes, Tables, Poëles, Balustres &c, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Modèles à l’usage des Bordures, Commodes, Tables, Poëles, Balustres &c

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacristy cabinet

Sacristy cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–80

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–85

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. 3793 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 32685 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 05:38 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.