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. 12 shown for “Design for a Hookah Base” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a Hookah Base
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

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

Bookstand
Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Pendant in the form of a mermaid
Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Base for a mandala
Artist not stated in the record · first half 15th century

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Roundel with Netting Quail
Augustin Hirschvogel · 16th century

Side chair (one of a pair)
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755–60
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. 5151 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 16:48 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.