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 Roades” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 14:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tankard
Charles Roades · 1679–80

Rumex altissimus Alph. Wood
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1987

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Ambrosia bidentata Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1875 to 27 Sep 1875

A Street in Grasse
Charles Nègre · 1852

Carex longii Mack.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 2000

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Asclepias variegata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004

Pier Table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Crataegus viridis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004

The Lamentation of Christ
Simon Marmion · ca. 1473

Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Rich. ex Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004

The Hamlet of Optevoz
Charles-François Daubigny · ca. 1852

Acanthospermum microcarpum B.L. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1932

Clouds
Thomas Cole · ca. 1838

Tephrosia decumbens Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1932

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Rorippa sessiliflora (Nutt.) Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1997

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1997

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Sida sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1983

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1757
Eragrostis sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1983
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. 180 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. 354387 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 14:07 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.