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 “Various Patterns Motif” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shirt
Moche artist(s) · 500–850 CE

Various Patterns Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Tunic
Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Various motifs and a stamp
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century

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

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · May 11, 1852

Tunic with Felines
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1550

Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tapestry Tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Design for Doors
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1716

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé
Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Incense burner with floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Sashiko Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

Incense burner with floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Baby's cap (back and side)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Wedding ensemble with cranes, pines, and rising-cloud patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1755

Koto (箏)
Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Ceiling paper
The Art Wall Paper Mills · 1907–1908

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Modèles à l’usage des Bordures, Commodes, Tables, Poëles, Balustres &c
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

Sacristy cabinet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–80

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–85
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. 3793 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 32685 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 05:38 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.