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 vertical border” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madonna and Child
Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Trial-proof for a printed vertical border
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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

Design for a Printed Vertical Border
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Illustration for a Book: Troops Advancing toward a City Gate
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

Sidewall and border
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Border Designs for the Mortlake "Acts of the Apostles" Tapestries
Franz Cleyn · ca. 1626–36

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

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Project for an embroidered vertical border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1808

Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

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

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

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

Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–70

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

The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

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

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

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

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

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

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–15
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. 2264 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 254 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 09:28 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.