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 “Prayer Rug with Coupled Columns” — 55 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Prayer Rug with Coupled Columns
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Corsica
Wood & Challinor · mid-19th century

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Transylvanian prayer rug
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

The Parthenon at Sunset, Athens
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869
Prayer Rug with Triple Arch Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Imagined Landscape with Ruined Temple
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868–69
Prayer Rug with Triple Arch Design
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 18th century

The Parthenon and Erechtheion, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Carpet with Double-Ended Triple Niche
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Carpet with Niche and Flower Design
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Decoration for portrait of Pope Pius VI and royal couple
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late13th century

Decoration for the marriage of Prince Paluzzo Altieri
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 253801 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 19:21 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.