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 “Dueling Pistol presented to Andrew Jackson” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Dueling Pistol presented to Andrew Jackson
Artist not stated in the record

Saint Andrew
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories
Samuel Colt · 1861

Major Lemuel Montgomery's Pistol
Bellah, J. · ca 1812

Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 94421
Smith & Wesson · 1892–93

Andrew Jackson
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1824

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush
Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Tumbler
Bakewell, Page & Bakewell · ca. 1825–30

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Shigaraki Tea Jar (Chatsubo)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Smallsword with Scabbard and Case
Michael Barnett · hallmarked for 1798–99

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th 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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 957917 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:49 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.