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. 13 shown for “C. B.” — 64 records examined, 50 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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C.B. Freundler · ca. 1835

Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1904

Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Magic Wand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Cittern
Joachim Tielke · ca. 1685

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Wall paintings on black ground: from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE
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. 21351 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1393888 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 19:49 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.