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 an Embroidered or Woven Vertical Border” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Vertical Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1805–1815

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

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

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

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

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

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

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

Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

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

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · central panel and outer border: 17th century; inner border: second half of 17th century

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

Tunic with Felines
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1550

Design for Two Embroidered or Woven Borders of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

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

Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

Charles I
R. Hayes · after 1649

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

The Last Judgment
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525–30

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

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815
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. 319 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 732743 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 12:27 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.