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 “Copies of Romanesque Letters and Motifs for a Woven Fabric” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 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.
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Copies of Romanesque Letters and Motifs for a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Design for a Motif off a Woven or Embroidery Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Design for Motifs for Woven Fabrics
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Design for a Motif of a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1815-1840

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Design for a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Design for a Woven Fabric Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Design for a Woven Fabric Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

Tunic with Confronting Catfish
Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Design for the Border Motif of a Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Design for the Corner Motif of a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Design for a Woven Fabric Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30
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. 424 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4065574 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 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.