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. 17 shown for “Wedding Tunic and Ensemble” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:24 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.
Wedding Tunic and Ensemble

Wedding Tunic and Ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Long sleeve tunic, shirt, and pants with leaf print, by Sotiba Simpafric, Senegalese, founded 1951

Long sleeve tunic, shirt, and pants with leaf print

Sotiba Simpafric, Senegalese, founded 1951 · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding ensemble, by Herman Rossberg

Wedding ensemble

Herman Rossberg · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton

Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton

Artist not stated in the record · 1939

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
Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski, by Lepenski, died 1985

Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski

Lepenski, died 1985 · 1981-1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toilet set in original leather case, by Fourteen identified German (Augsburg) goldsmiths and other German artisans; Japanese (Imari) porcelain maker

Toilet set in original leather case

Fourteen identified German (Augsburg) goldsmiths and other German artisans; Japanese (Imari) porcelain maker · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?, by Unidentified

Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?

Unidentified · mid-to late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding ensemble

Wedding ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1910

Public domainThe Met
Cream tunic shirt with rhinestones and belt, by Unidentified

Cream tunic shirt with rhinestones and belt

Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding Ensemble

Wedding Ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic

Fragment of tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ensemble

Ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment

Tunic fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ensemble

Ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
World War I enlisted soldier's tunic and cigarette holder

World War I enlisted soldier's tunic and cigarette holder

Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding ensemble

Wedding ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–50

Public domainThe Met
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. 145 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1463917 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 17:24 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.