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 silk skirt panel” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:31 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 silk skirt panel

Woven silk skirt panel

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ivory silk ensemble with skirt slip, by Vogue Pattern Company, American, founded 1899

Ivory silk ensemble with skirt slip

Vogue Pattern Company, American, founded 1899 · 1970s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk

Panel of brocaded silk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Tapis (skirt)

Tapis (skirt)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk

Panel of brocaded silk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery, by Unidentified

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery

Unidentified · ca. 1914 - 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk, by James Leman (British, 1688–1745)

Panel of brocaded silk

James Leman (British, 1688–1745) · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Skirt panel

Skirt panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk

Panel of brocaded silk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Skirt panel

Skirt panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress panels

Dress panels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse

Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim, by Unidentified

Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim

Unidentified · ca.1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Skirt panel

Skirt panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated grey and white geometric print dress with bow, by Blakely Fashions

Pleated grey and white geometric print dress with bow

Blakely Fashions · 1950-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skirt Panel

Skirt Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Green bodice and skirt with brown stripe accents, by Unidentified

Green bodice and skirt with brown stripe accents

Unidentified · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skirt

Skirt

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt, by Unidentified

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt

Unidentified · 1965-1980

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. 556 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. 32838 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 2026-09-07 08:31 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.