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. 13 shown for “Charles Tisch” — 41 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cabinet
Charles Tisch · ca. 1884

Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch,… (Writing Desk and Chair)
Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1720

Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1968

Salix herbacea L.
Artist not stated in the record · Ende Juli 1906

Salix herbacea L.
Artist not stated in the record · Ende Juli 1906

Dipodomys merriami merriami
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1957

Ammospermophilus harrisii harrisii
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1958

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · c. 1800-1810

Charles Willson Peale
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

Charles Willson Peale
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807
Charles Willson Peale
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Alexander Anderson, 1775 - 1870 · c. 1801

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Unidentified Artist · 1796
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 127355 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 14:19 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.