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. 20 shown for “Affecter” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta amphora (jar)
Affecter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Maternal Affection
Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Affecter · ca. 540 BCE

Paper-Bound Album of Silhouettes
Grandmother of Henry W. A. Littledale, English, active 19th c. · ca. 1825

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Affecter · ca. 550–540 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Affecter · ca. 550–540 BCE

Waltheria indica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 2002

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Affecter · ca. 550 BCE

Panicum hemitomon Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 2000

Parochialstrasse in Berlin
Eduard Gaertner · 1831

Panther and Cubs--"Maternal Affection"
Edward Kemeys, born Savannah, GA 1843-died Washington, DC 1907 · ca. 1870-1907

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1810

Platter
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

To One I Love
Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888 · ca. 1870

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume
Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Dog kennel
Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Tumbler
Bakewell, Page & Bakewell · 1825–30

Clytie
George Frederic Watts · ca. 1868–75
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. 519 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 710 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:06 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.