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 “Wallpaper Design” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pink and Rose
William Morris · ca. 1890

Textile or Wallpaper Design: Insects
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit
Paul Gauguin · 1896

Wallpaper Design: Garden seen through an Alcove
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–25

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Wallpaper Design
Pignet et Cie · 1795

Wallpaper design featuring bouquets of roses, strapwork, and rinceaux
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · 1830–97

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Trellis
William Morris · 1864

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Toast rack
Christopher Dresser · 1878

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Daisy
William Morris · 1864

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

Wild Tulip
William Morris · 1884

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Floral Wallpaper with Classical Elements
Réveillon · ca. 1780s

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

Marigold
William Morris · 1875

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Willow
William Morris · 1874

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Larkspur
William Morris · 1875

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60
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. 184 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 97135 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 2026-08-30 05:49 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.