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. 14 shown for “Comb Case with Wig and Lice Combs” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Comb case with two wig combs
Paul Bennett · 1685

Comb Case with Wig and Lice Combs
Artist not stated in the record · 1671

Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

Bag for a travel hair care kit used by Anna Mae Queen Holmes
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

Comb
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Comb
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century

Lice comb (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · 1848–49

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–60

Comb (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · 1848–49

Allegory of Music
Laurent de La Hyre · 1649

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)
Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Five-piece parure in original case
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 18th 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. 31 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. 1531593 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:15 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.