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. 22 shown for “Bruce, George” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Patent Model for an Artificial Blast for Typecasting Machines
Bruce, George · ca 1854

A Man Leaning on a Parapet
Georges Seurat · ca. 1881

Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1906

Fujiwara no Kamatari as a Shinto Deity
Artist not stated in the record · after 1350
Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1938

Cavalry Men at Rest
Georg Philipp Rugendas · late 17th–mid-18th century

Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

Man with a Steel Gorget
Rembrandt

Coreopsis lanceolata var. villosa Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay, de jure 8th Earl of Devon, and George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry
Francesco Bartolozzi · 1779–1802

Smilax hispida Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/7/34

Folding portable lantern in book form
Artist not stated in the record · between 1860 and 1869

Leea indica (Burm. f.) Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1993

Bum-bemsue
Thomas Martin Easterly · 1847

Heliotropium angiospermum Murray
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1938
![[Basket Weavers], by Giorgio Sommer](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-45651-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Basket Weavers]
Giorgio Sommer · ca. 1870

Priva lappulacea (L.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1938
![[Water Seller], by Giorgio Sommer](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-45652-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Water Seller]
Giorgio Sommer · ca. 1870

Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1938

Design for Enamel "Plum" Bowl
Louis C. Tiffany · 1898–99

Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1938
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. 108 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. 212725 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:02 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.