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 Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:50 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

Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

Fragment of a Kaftan Back
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

Border Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1825

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1870

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

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

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815-1840

Chandos
Owen Jones · ca. 1873

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815-1840

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840
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. 425 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2119756 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 11:50 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.