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 “Border (Bas de rochet)” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Border (Bas de rochet)
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century (?)

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté
Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

Border (Bas de rochet)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

George Scott Winslow
Edmonia Lewis, American, 1844 - 1907 · 1866

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) S. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1928

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Smilax corbularia Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1928

La dedvction de l'innocence de messire Philippe Baron de Montmorency, Conte de Hornes, franc seigneur de Vveert, admiral & capitaine general de la Mer du pais bas ... contre la malicievse apprehension, indeüe detention, injuste procedure, fausse accusation, iniques sentences et tyrannicque exécution en sa personne à grand tort, par voye de faict perpetrees
Jacques de Wesenbeke · 1568

Alsophila metteniana Hance
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1961

Saints Michael and Francis
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Diospyros virgata (Gürke) Brenan
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/4/77

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1947

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1909 to 19 Oct 1909

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

Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1909 to 19 Oct 1909

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1909 to 19 Oct 1909

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Grona styracifolia (Osbeck) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1928

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Lespedeza cuneata (Dum. Cours.) G. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1928
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. 33 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. 648557 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 18:23 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.