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. 12 shown for “Carpet with Triple-Arch Design” — 40 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Design for Ornament
Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · ca. 1615

Horsemen in a Landscape
Alessio De Marchis, Italian, 1684–1754 · 1740–50

Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Decanter and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–15

Decanter and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–15

Design for a Window for the Paulist Fathers' Church
John La Farge, American, 1835–1910 · 1877–80

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

Gardens of Bacchus
Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · ca. 1730

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Porte St. Antoine, Plate 77 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"
Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1870
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1597 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 19:21 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.