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. 23 shown for “Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, loose weave” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, loose weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, close weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Carpet fragments
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, irregular weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, irregular weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Sheet, linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Fragment mounted onto a support fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Sheet, linen mark, fine spin, loose weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, loose weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Sheet with linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Sheet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1818
Sheet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, close weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th 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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 142071 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-29 08:02 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.