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. 23 shown for “Case for a Goose” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Case for a Goose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1999

Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1767–71

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Rudbeckia hirta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2024

Tall Clock
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Liatris spicata (L.) Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2024

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Study for a Painting on Theme of Callisto
Filippo Falciatore, Italian, active 1737 - 1768 · ca. 1750

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

Wall clock (cartel) with movement of later date
Jacques Caffieri · case ca. 1745–49; movement ca. 1756

Instrument case for flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884

Preserved Goose in Half of a Wooden Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Case Bottom for Folding Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement
David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2024

Mantel clock (horloge de cheminée)
Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain · ca. 1745

Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
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. 4353 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2079845 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 2026-08-27 21:58 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.