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. 14 shown for “Edwaert Collier” — 42 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vanitas Still Life
Edwaert Collier · 1662

William Collier
Alfred J. Frueh, 2 Sep 1880 - 14 Sep 1968 · 1915-22

Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?)
Willem Drost · 1653 or 1655

Ellis Lewis and John Collier
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1840
Trentepohlia aurea
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1955

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1946
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1982

Iva frutescens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1966
Gracilaria cylindrica Børgesen
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1981
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1982
Gracilaria cylindrica Børgesen
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1981
Avrainvillea nigricans Decne.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1981
Gracilaria cylindrica Børgesen
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1981
Avrainvillea nigricans Decne.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1981
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2374 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 12:14 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.