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 “A.M.” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Baijiania yunnanensis (A.M. Lu & Zhi Y. Zhang) A.M. Lu & J.Q. Li
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1929

Pair of Torah finials (rimonim)
A.M. · 1895

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1906

Entombment of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1925

Nécessaire (one of a pair)
John Barbot · ca. 1760

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1925

Arrow Point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1927

Arrow Point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1951

Arrow point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1944

Arrow Point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1963

Arrow point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1914

Arrow Point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1930

Arrow Point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Feb 1910 to 7 Feb 1921

Arrow point
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Pecluma dispersa (A.M. Evans) M.G. Price
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1955
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. 20913 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1178 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-04 18:41 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.