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. 12 shown for “Sketch and Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · central panel and outer border: 17th century; inner border: second half of 17th century

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Adam and Eve Making Garments of Leaves; God Admonishing Adam and Eve for their Transgression (one of a set of three)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

The Elephant from a set of five Grotesques
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer · designed ca. 1688, woven ca. 1690–1711

Livre de Moresques, page 10 (recto)
Francesco di Pellegrino · 1546

Livre de Moresques, page 9 (verso)
Francesco di Pellegrino · 1546

Cabinet with personifications of the Five Senses
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century

Tunic with Confronting Catfish
Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE
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. 335 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:08 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.