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. 21 shown for “Stuffed quilt” — 57 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stuffed quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1800

Bodice fronts
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Stuffed and corded quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Fables of Fontaine
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1815

Stuffed and corded quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Embroidered and stuffed whitework quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Stuffed and corded crib quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · 1857

Wholecloth whitework quilt
Sarah Cook · ca. 1800

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Wholecloth whitework quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

Silk Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Wholecloth quilt
Artist not stated in the record · 1747

Cap fragment
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 5th century

Whole cloth quilt
Unknown · ca. 1885

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Corded crib quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Star of Bethlehem Quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Quilt, pieced
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 2337 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:22 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.