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 “Interlaced circles” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 09:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Interlaced circles
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Pair of andirons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Interlaced Circles
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

Textile Design with an Interlacing Pattern of Circles with Pearls over a Stippled Background
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

“The Fifth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Six-pointed Stars
Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

“The Sixth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Wreaths
Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

“The Sixth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Wreaths
Albrecht Dürer · before 1521

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Textile Design with a Seamless Pattern of Circles and Pearls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1840

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

“The Fourth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with a Round Medallion in its Center
Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Traditional Abstract Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

“The Fourth Knot”, Interlaced Roundel with a Round Medallion in its Center
Albrecht Dürer · before 1521

Compartimens pour differens Usage tel que Marqueteries
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

“The Second Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with an Amazon Shield in its Center
Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

“The First Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with an Oblong Panel in its Center
Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

African Marigold
Morris & Co., London, England · 1876

“The Third Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Eight Wreaths and a Scalloped Shield in its Center
Albrecht Dürer · 1521 before

Tablecloth
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 6980 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 09:07 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.