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 “Woven carpet” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:31 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woven carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Cartoon for a Woven Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1848

Woven Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Cartoon for a Woven Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1848

Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Carpet
Thomas Whitty · ca. 1765

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

Five Medallion Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Woven Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–50

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

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

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Woven carpet piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Woven carpet piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–70

Carpet fragment
Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900

Woven carpet piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

Carpet fragment
Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900

Silk Animal Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Carpet (tapis)
Savonnerie Manufactory · third quarter 17th century

Carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th 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. 196 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. 13781 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 22:31 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.