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, Netherlandish, 16th century” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Adoration of the Shepherds (Cartoon)
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Embroidery
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Studies of a Dog
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Strong box and key
Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Hunting Scene
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

A Country Dance
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · ca. 1520

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Design for a Vignette in Strap-Work
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

The standing Virgin with an elaborate ornamental frame
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 17th century

Stove tile
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Fragment of architectural frame
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · late 16th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Adoration of the Magi
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Study of a Tree
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Garden of Eden; Creation of the Animals
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Right Half of a Strapwork Cartouche
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Fragment of design for architectural frame
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 5975 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. 38993 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 13:27 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.