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 a Waistcoat” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1615–20

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1787

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Waistcoat
Anna Maria Garthwaite · 1747

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · before 1906

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · before 1906

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790
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. 22280 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2091873 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 07:07 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.