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. 17 shown for “Quilt, Eagle pattern” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Eagle pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1837–50

Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Eagle
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1731
1825 - 1840 Susan Strong's "Great Seal" Quilt
Strong, Susan · 1825-1840

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Nine-patch pattern quilt owned by the Russell family of Lyles Station
Katie Mariah Hardiman, American, 1877 - 1954 · 1930s

Quilt, Four Eagles pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Cathedral Window Quilt
Artist not stated in the record

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Eagle transformation figure
Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle
Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

Crib quilt, appliqued
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1st–2nd century CE

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Quilt, Contained Crazy pattern
Nancy Doughty · 1872
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. 353 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 32643 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:49 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.