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 “Wallpaper Design” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:49 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.
Pink and Rose, by William Morris

Pink and Rose

William Morris · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Textile or Wallpaper Design: Insects

Textile or Wallpaper Design: Insects

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Teapot and Fruit, by Paul Gauguin

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

Paul Gauguin · 1896

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design: Garden seen through an Alcove

Wallpaper Design: Garden seen through an Alcove

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by John Bennett

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design, by Pignet et Cie

Wallpaper Design

Pignet et Cie · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wallpaper design featuring bouquets of roses, strapwork, and rinceaux, by Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

Wallpaper design featuring bouquets of roses, strapwork, and rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · 1830–97

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trellis, by William Morris

Trellis

William Morris · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toast rack, by Christopher Dresser

Toast rack

Christopher Dresser · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daisy, by William Morris

Daisy

William Morris · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wild Tulip, by William Morris

Wild Tulip

William Morris · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral Wallpaper with Classical Elements, by Réveillon

Floral Wallpaper with Classical Elements

Réveillon · ca. 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marigold, by William Morris

Marigold

William Morris · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Willow, by William Morris

Willow

William Morris · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Larkspur, by William Morris

Larkspur

William Morris · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

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. 184 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 97135 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 2026-08-30 05:49 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.