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. 21 shown for “Card” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Card
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
Porcelain Button
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Card
Artist not stated in the record · 1809

The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Card table (from a large set)
Giles Grendey · ca. 1735–40
Button
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Smallsword Hilt with Storage Case
Rundell, Bridge and Rundell · ca. 1785–1800

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Button
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

Buttons
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Card Table
John Goddard · 1760–85

Button
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Card table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1817

Button
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Card table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1805–12

Button
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767

Button
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Button
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 36636 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 202395 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-31 23:13 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.