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. 23 shown for “Bennet” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Boy and Girl Holding Hands], by Bennet](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT5655.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Boy and Girl Holding Hands]
Bennet · ca. 1850

Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet
Artist not stated in the record

Strainer spoon
Edward Bennet I · 18th century

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1902

Candlestick (one of a pair)
Anthony de Rooy · 1732

Justicia santapaui Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1971

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Belt hook
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–3rd century BCE

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1913

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

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1899

Tiered Box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/11/62

Tiered Box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Neohymenopogon parasiticus (Wall.) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record

Strainer spoon
Edward Bennet I · 18th century

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 1863 to 1868

Self-Portrait
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

Justicia santapaui Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1971

To'o (ritual image)
Mā'ohi artist · 18th century

Neohymenopogon parasiticus (Wall.) Bennet
Artist not stated in the record

Open bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1933
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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 305 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-07 11:02 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.