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 “Wall tile” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:28 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.
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Wall Tile

Square Wall Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Tile Depicting an Asian Captive

Wall Tile Depicting an Asian Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Tile with Rekhyt Birds

Wall Tile with Rekhyt Birds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II

Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

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

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. 818 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. 30552 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 01:28 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.