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. 17 shown for “Armet with Matching Wrapper” — 51 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 19:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armet with Matching Wrapper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

1c Byam, Carlton and Company wrapper revenue stamp single
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

Armet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

"Scientific American"
Enos Richardson & Company · ca. 1890

Armet with Wrapper
Artist not stated in the record · armet, ca. 1460–70; wrapper, ca. 1450; rondel, probably 18th–19th century

1c Byam, Carlton and Company revenue stamp wrapper approved die proof
Artist not stated in the record · December 8, 1875

Cloudy Mountains
Mi Youren · before 1200

1c Byam, Carlton and Company wrapper revenue stamp single
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi
Zhao Mengfu · 1310s

Child's wrapper
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–69

Portrait of a Boy
Louis Léopold Boilly · ca. 1805

Hinggi kombu (men's ceremonial wrapper)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality
Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308

Columbian Exposition wrapper with complete set
American Bank Note Company · May 18, 1893

Whiling Away the Summer at the Ink-Well Thatched Hut
Wu Li · 1679

Man's wrapper (hinggi)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

"Stars and Stripes" wrapper
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1918
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 250636 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 19:50 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.