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 a Motif of a Woven Fabric” — 64 records examined, 10 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.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

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

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

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

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

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

Portrait of Napoleon I
baron François Gérard · designed 1805, woven 1808–11

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

Fabric
Chinese · 18th–19th 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

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

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

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

Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

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

The Hunters Enter the Woods (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

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

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

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

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

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Reinhold Vasters · probably second half 19th century

Design for the Border Motif of a Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825
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. 5342 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. 3884162 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 2026-09-02 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.