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. 19 shown for “Door handle” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:42 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.
Door Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Door Knocker or Handle Designs
Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

Door Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Recto, Design for a door handle with alternative suggestions
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1660–80

Door Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

handle, door
Artist not stated in the record · 1790- 1820

Door Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

handle, door
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1790

handle, door
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1775-1799

Bird cage in the form of a circus wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Foot Warmer
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1900

Door knocker
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1881

Door handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1560–1600

Rubber-handled Door Opener
unknown · 19th century

Door Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1847-03-20

Door handle
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Framed photograph of General Colin L. Powell and President George W. Bush
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2001-2007

Door Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 15th 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. 117 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. 22160 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:42 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.