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 “Charles Faris” — 58 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Creamer
Charles Faris · 1790–1800

Jenny Lind
Thomas Faris, 1814 - ? · 1851

Coffeepot
Charles Faris · 1790–1800
Passiflora pallida L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1921

Sugar Urn
Charles Faris · 1790–1800
Passiflora pallida L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
Passiflora pallida L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Winslow Homer
Thomas A. Gray, active 1863 · 1863

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497
Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1921

The Last Judgment
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525–30
Sida rhombifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation
Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480
Corchorus aestuans L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1921

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Corchorus aestuans L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460
Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1921

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445
Sida acuta Burm. f.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 128260 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 2026-09-07 09:48 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.