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 “Brush Rest with White Cockatoo” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 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.
Brush Rest with White Cockatoo
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Allegorical Figure of "America"
Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858 · mid- 18th–early 19th century

Brush Rest with Persian Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Page from a photograph album with six mounted photographs
Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750

Textile
Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765 · 1751–56

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

"Petites colonne placee entre les colonnes departmentales"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Adrien Dassier · 1666

"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Fire screen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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

Design for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Musician
Bartholomeus van der Helst · 1662

A White-Brown Cockatoo
Artist not stated in the record · 1610–50

Tiger in Repose
Antoine-Louis Barye · ca. 1850–65

Design for a Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1790

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

"Orchestres du grand carre des champs-elysees (1838)"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

White-Robed Guanyin
Unidentified · late 14th century

Mâts placés sur le Pont-Neuf aux Fêtes de Juillet 1838 (Flagpole for Pont Neuf, Paris, July Festival 1838)
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Great African Kingfisher, Plate 11 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837
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. 96 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. 330261 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 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.