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. 17 shown for “Quilt, Strip pattern” — 64 records examined, 37 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, Strip pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825
Piecework quilt in saw design made by enslaved persons in Montgomery, Alabama
Unidentified · ca. 1847
Quilt, Strip pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840
Log Cabin Quilt
Ira Blount · 1996
Quilt, Spiderweb pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
Chintz Bar and Broken Dishes
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Bracelet with Grapevine Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century
Quilt in eight pointed star design made by an enslaved person in Georgia
Unidentified · ca. 1863, repaired later
Bracelet with Grapevine Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century
Brown and White Quilt
Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century
Quilt, Presentation pattern
Mary Hergenroder Simon · ca. 1849
Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Strip
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Strip
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Strip
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Strip
Artist not stated in the record · 17th or early 19th century
Strip
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 604 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 21843 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 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.