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. 19 shown for “Quilt, Flying Geese pattern” — 54 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:47 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, Flying Geese pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–50

Wild Goose Chase
Martha Brownlee · 1825–1850

Quilt, Flying Geese pattern
Mary Spingler Fonderden Van Beuren · ca. 1845

Flying Geese
Unidentified · ca. 1840

Koto (箏)
Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Pieced Quilt (Honeycomb)
Unidentified · ca. 1830

Geese and Reeds
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Pieced quilt (Flying Geese)
Unidentified · ca. 1845-1850

Wild Goose Chase Quilt
Susan Reed Ruddick · 1851

Flying Geese Variation
Unidentified · early 20th Century

New Year (Nieuwjaar)
Theodorus van Hoytema · 1894

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

Christmas Eve (Kerstnacht)
Theodorus van Hoytema · 1894

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

Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Cathedral Window Quilt
Artist not stated in the record

Carpet with a Compartment Design
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

Counterpane, Bolton type
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–1835

Coverlet
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 143589 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 10:47 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.