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. 24 shown for “Trial Proof for a Printed Textile” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kettle Drums
Franz Peter Bundsen · 1780

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Bible and Book of Common Prayer
Robert Barker · ca. 1607

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

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

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Dye-Patterned Silk
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

The Abduction of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1625

Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire
Edward Pearce · ca. 1677–80

Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"
Artist not stated in the record · after 1721

Portrait Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1895

Trial Proof for a Flowered Chintz
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Scotch Firs, Inveroran
Sir Francis Seymour Haden · 1873

Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)
C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86

Trial Proof for a Flower Chintz
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Tomb of Porsenna
Sir Francis Seymour Haden · 1844

Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"
Artist not stated in the record · after 1761
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. 1242 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2162367 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 2026-09-08 10:48 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.