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 “Design for Seven Metal Book Clasps” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Design for Seven Metal Book Clasps
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1800

Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Design for Six Metal Book Clasps
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1800

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Design for Six Metal Book Clasps
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1800

Bookstand
Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Cameo brooch and bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Photograph album owned by Emily Howland
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Photograph album of Allston family and other portraits
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s-1910

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Morse with Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Design for a Cross Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Design for a Comb
Artist not stated in the record · 1810
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Geometric floral and paisley printed handbag with bamboo handle
Unidentified · 1960s - 1970s

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Woven basket purse with floral design from Mae's Millinery Shop
Unidentified · 1941-1994
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. 1481 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 575224 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 05:05 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.