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 Overing” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Monteith
Charles Overing · 1695–96

Photograph of airmail pilot Charles Ames
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1924

Pocket canteen (traveling set)
Charles Overing · 1709/10

Carte-de-visite of Preston Taylor as a drummer with the 116th USCT
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Crandall’s Improved District School playset made by Charles M. Crandall
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Design for Scribner's Insignia
Homer Wayland Colby, American, 1874–1950 · 1908–09

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Tamba ware bottle for candy pellets
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree
Thomas Toft · ca. 1680

Shiga ware cylindrical tea bowl in Oribe style
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1868

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Clef en console et tête
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)
baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Tea ceremony water jar
Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

Chocolate Pot
Tiffany & Co. · 1879

Bobolink
Ernest Thompson Seton, American, 1860–1946 · 1893

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V
Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Flowers of the seasons
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1600-1630

A Street in Grasse
Charles Nègre · 1852

Flowers and a brook
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters
Eugène Delacroix · 1832

Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses
Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871) · mid 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. 2198 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 162552 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 07:36 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.