OpenTwo 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 “Wholecloth whitework quilt” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wholecloth whitework quilt
J. Wright · ca. 1815
Whitework
Unidentified · 19th century
Wholecloth whitework quilt
Sarah Cook · ca. 1800
Quilted petticoat
Unidentified · 1830s-1840s; repurposed 1890s
Wholecloth whitework quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815
Fabric piece with whitework embroidery
Artist not stated in the record · 1828-1850
Corded quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Woman's blouse
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Corded crib quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Stuffed and corded quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Stuffed and corded quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Stuffed and corded crib quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835
Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
Stuffed quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1800
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Wholecloth quilt
Artist not stated in the record · 1747
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650
Wholecloth quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Wholecloth quilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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. 33 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1373 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-28 14:16 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.