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 “Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Designs for Printed Cotton Textiles
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern Decorated with Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Fragment of a decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design of Scattered Pealrs over a Background of Scrolling Branches
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern and Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 19th century

Textile Design with Scrolling Branches and Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Seal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with Scattered Pearls over an Abstract Background
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Ribbon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with Horizontal Garlands of Alternating Palmettes Decorated with Trefoils of Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Rosettes of Pearls Flanked with Abstract Palmettes of Dots
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Stylized Flowers and Leaves
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips and Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Seal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Design with a Chevron Base Pattern and Vertical Strips of Lozenges and Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Vinaigrette
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
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. 3626 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. 39333 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-31 11:42 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.