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 “Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fabric
Chinese · 18th–19th century

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

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

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

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series
Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

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

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

Arabesque Design
François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1788

Piece
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

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

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

Sofa (part of a set)
Filippo Pelagio Palagi · ca. 1835

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

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

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

Commode
Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

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

Length of painted silk
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Copies of Romanesque Letters and Motifs for a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850
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. 886 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 648597 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 09:20 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.