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 “Borch, active mid 18th century” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Turnus Provoked into War by Aeneas
José Manuel de la Cerda · ca. 1764

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Armor (Gusoku)
Saotome Ietada · 16th and 18th centuries

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Title Page
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Virgin and Child
Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Book cover
Johann Jakob Bruglocher II · mid-18th century

Nouveau Livre de Cartouches à l’Usage de différens Artistes
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

'Saz'-Style Drawing of a Dragon Amid Foliage
Shah Quli · ca. 1540–50

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Dish with long-tailed birds and hibiscuses
Zhang Cheng · mid-14th century

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825)
Louis-François Jeannest · 1812

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Musk Cat
Uto Gyoshi · mid- to late 16th century

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68
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. 422 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. 71238 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 14:32 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.