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. 20 shown for “Esaias Busch III” — 48 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kettle and lamp stand
Esaias Busch III · 1718–20

Design for the Frame of the Portrait of Charles III, King of Spain
Johann Esaias Nilson, German, 1721 - 1788 · 1759
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Beaker
Esaias Busch III · 1720

Frederick the Great
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Écuelle with cover
Esaias Busch III · 1714–18

Quatuor Evangelistae
Artist not stated in the record · 1721-1788

Chocolate pot
Esaias Busch III · 1718–20

Adsumto Puero Ejusq Matre Fuge in Aegyptum
Artist not stated in the record · 1721-1788

Two soldiers shaking hands
Kelsterbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory · 1761–64

Vobis Hodie Natus Est Servator qui est Christus Dominus in Oppido Davidis
Artist not stated in the record · 1721-1788

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Design for an Escutcheon
Johann Esaias Nilson, German, 1721 - 1788 · 1721–1783

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Design for the Frame of the Portrait of Frederick V, King of Denmark
Johann Esaias Nilson, German, 1721 - 1788 · ca. 1760

The Man of Sorrows
Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono) · ca. 1430

Thlaspi ceratocarpum N. Busch
Artist not stated in the record
Serritaenia braunii (De Bary) Busch & Hess
Artist not stated in the record

Crambe koktebelica N. Busch
Artist not stated in the record

Pedicularis panjutinii E.A. Busch
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1935

Carum caucasicum Boiss.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1915 to 27 Jul 1915
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13602 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.