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. 11 shown for “Basket with Lid” — 64 records examined, 53 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circular Basket with Conical Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Lid
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Basket with Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–525 BCE

Teakettle and spirit lamp with stand
Paul de Lamerie · 1744/45

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Terracotta lekanis (covered dish)
Otchët Group · ca. 400 BCE

Basket of Flowers
Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Kohl Jar with the Lid Tied in Place and Kohl Stick
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE
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. 3653 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 271918 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:07 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.