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 “"Princess and Attendants on Balcony", Folio from the Davis Album” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Portrait of a Persian Lady", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1149 AH/1736–37 CE

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1695–1768

"Two Old Men in Discussion Outside a Hut", Folio from the Davis Album
'Ali Quli Jabbadar · dated 1085 AH/1674–75 CE

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

"Diana, Goddess of the Hunt", Folio from the Davis Album
'Ali Quli Jabbadar · early 17th century

Sketchbook Page
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Hamid Bhakari Punished by Akbar", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album
Abu'l Fazl · ca. 1604

Sketchbook Page
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Princess and Attendants on Balcony", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Sketchbook Page: Cows from Nature
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Women on a Balcony", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sketchbook Page: Horse's Head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Prince With his Courtiers and Musicians", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of "El Primo," After Velázquez
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

"Camp Being Prepared in the Hills", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Sketchbook Page: Self-Portrait
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Portrait of a Prince (Shah Jahan ?)", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Sketchbook Page: Historic Portrait No. 11 (Self-Portrait)
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Night Scene: Group Listening to Music", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Sketchbook Page: Female Nude
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1877–78

"Women Bathing by Moonlight", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sketchbook Page: Iris
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1874

"Portrait of Jahangir Holding Flower", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Sketchbook Page: Letter about Refusal from Salon
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 8203 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 2026-08-28 23:52 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.