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. 22 shown for “Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion” — 50 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso)
Unknown · late 14th century

The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

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

Cover with Unicorns
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Heraldic Composition
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Cartouche Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

The Lion Strangler
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-12th century

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with Virtues
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Panel Design with a Centaur and a Lion Fighting
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1651

Chasuble
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720 (figurative woven silk), ca. 1775 (embroidered orphrey), cut patched and reassembled ca. 1775

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Coverlet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Sewing case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1839

Woman's gloves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1554777 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 01:18 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.