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 “Floral printed cotton” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Floral printed cotton
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Red and yellow dress worn by Janet Jackson as Penny Woods on Good Times
Rita Riggs, American, born 1930 · December 1977

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

No. 19 Wood Colors Nov. 1882
Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA · 1882

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Child's dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1864–65

Cotton Tree Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1805

Book 3 1887
Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA · 1886–88

Side chair (set of four)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Sewing case
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Side chair (set of four)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

1850 - 1875 "Shoo-fly" Pieced Quilt
unknown · 1850-1875

Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1886

Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Cotton Prints Samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Cotton Prints Samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Printed cotton
Robert Jones · 1761

Cotton Prints Samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1845–60
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. 3800 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. 311541 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 18:01 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.