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 “Woven Panel or Rug with Fringes” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:32 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.
Woven Panel or Rug with Fringes

Woven Panel or Rug with Fringes

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer Rug

Prayer Rug

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered panel, by Wari artist(s)

Feathered panel

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Panels for a bag

Panels for a bag

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
panel

panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Sash

Sash

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ulos ragidup (ceremonial shoulder cloth)

Ulos ragidup (ceremonial shoulder cloth)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of velvet

Panel of velvet

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

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Rectangular Box

Panel from a Rectangular Box

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat front

Waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat front

Waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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. 358 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 448545 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 22:32 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.