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. 21 shown for “Boot with Spur” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Boot with Spur
Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1870–90

Boot with Spur
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Boot with Spur
Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1870–90

Ace of Clubs
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Rowel Spur
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Boot
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Armor for a Member of the Barberini Family
Artist not stated in the record · armor, ca. 1623–30; spurs, early 17th century

Filigree Shoe
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Prick Spur
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Worn Shoe Sole
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Prick Spur
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bronze spur
Artist not stated in the record

The Beheading of St. John Baptist
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

Pair of Rowel Spurs
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Harrimanella hypnoides (L.) Coville
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1919

Pair of Rowel Spurs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500 and 19th century

Black suede knee high boots
Unidentified · late 20th century

Pair of Rowel Spurs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Pair of Rowel Spurs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)
Jacques Louis David · 1816
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. 709 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 252673 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.