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 “Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design for a Ceiling Painting, Venus, Cupid, and Putti
Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1700–29

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Doorway of San Salvatore in Lauro with Decoration for the Funeral of King Frederick August III of Poland, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1763–64

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Figure of a Boy on a Ram (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Two Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Design for a Tureen
Artist not stated in the record · 1825-1835

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Sketch for a Wall Painting, Porch with a View in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Pair of Scissors with Sphinx-shaped Handles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 17th century

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Figural Group of Cupids Fishing Representing Water, from a Group Called "The Elements" (One of a Pair)
Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1790–1795
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. 9680 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3993146 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 08:38 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.