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 “Anonymous, German, 17th century” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory on Vanity
Anonymous, German, 17th century

Concert de Famille
Artist not stated in the record · 1881

Triumphal Entry of King
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Key
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Design for a frame with foliates and putti
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Studies for Decorative Arts Objects
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Reign of Heavens
Anonymous, German, 17th century · late 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Design for a Tabernacle with the Annunciation
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Pyramus and Thisbe
Anonymous, German, 17th century · ca. 1580

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Design for a Chimneypiece with a Personification of Virtue
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 1616

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Tomb for a Bishop
Anonymous, German, 17th century · early 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Celebration for the Elector Johann Georg II, Leipzig, July 8, 1667
Anonymous, German, 17th century · ca. 1667

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Plate from a book showing a procession of men and women with a skeleton at the beginning, middle and end of the line
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Marcus Aurelius on Horseback (recto); Study of an Antique Vase (verso)
Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th 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. 4667 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. 52068 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 01:14 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.