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 “Album Page with Découpé Calligraphy” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Album Page with Découpé Calligraphy
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–40

Platte Bende decoup de Floeurs (Flat Band of Flowers, Five Different Variations), in Nouveaux Livre de Parterres contenant 24 pensséz diferantes (New Book Containing 24 Different Variations for Garden Beds)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong
Yun Xiang · datable to 1645–55

Design for a Fountain with Landscape
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning
Zhou Lianggong · datable to 1663 or later

Photograph album owned by Emily Howland
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu
Various artists · 1666–80

album page with three covers with British Field Post markings on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1916

Page of Calligraphy
Sultan Muhammad Nur · early 16th century

album page with notations referencing cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · February 12, 1943

Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Telegraph license with Haifa postmark on album page
Artist not stated in the record · November 28, 1947

Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Photograph album of Allston family and other portraits
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s-1910

Pilgrim’s Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Album page with cover sent via British Depot Mail and voter form on album page
Artist not stated in the record · December 31, 1941

Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Album page
Artist not stated in the record

Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing
Konoe Nobutada · early 17th century

Album page
Artist not stated in the record

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Album page
Artist not stated in the record

Eight views of the Yellow Mountains
Zheng Min · 1681

Album page
Artist not stated in the record
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. 117 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 263367 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-26 16:07 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.