OpenTwo 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. 13 shown for “Knotted Rug” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Knotted Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900
Knotted Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900
Knotted Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900
Knotted Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900
Knotted Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900
'Lotto' Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Five Medallion Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500
The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Confronted Animal Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Prayer Rug
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th 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. 481 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. 4515 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 00:15 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.