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. 15 shown for “Company of Stationers” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes, with an embroidered cover
Company of Stationers · ca. 1635

Union News luggage Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

The Bible, The Book of Psalms
Company of Stationers · ca. 1649

Company 1152. E.L. Moore, Chief Specialist, Company Commander. September 10, 1943. U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IIIinois
Unidentified · 1943

Great Indian Fruit Bat
Bhawani Das · ca. 1777–82

New Jersey Midland Rail Yard Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670

The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer, The Book of Psalms with Royal Stuart arms
Robert Barker · ca. 1624

Candlestick (one of a pair)
Stephen Pilcherd · ca. 1660–80

Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30

Domed Pavilion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey
George Inness · ca. 1891

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100
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. 37555 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2906084 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 11:55 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.