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 Printed Vertical Border” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madonna and Child
Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Design for a Printed Vertical Border
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Trial-proof for a printed vertical border
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Project for an embroidered vertical border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1808

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ....
Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville · 1712

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Four Border Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Close Helmet for the Tourney
Daniel Hopfer · dated 1552

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–15
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. 9407 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. 2182062 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 10:47 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.