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 “Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Carpet fragments
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1680

The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

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

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"
Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

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

Sidewall
Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1830–31

Study of Water and Plants
Thomas Fearnley · 1837

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1832

Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1188 AH/1774 CE

Campion
Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
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. 65 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. 6752603 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-02 00:27 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.