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. 12 shown for “Fish Net” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fish in net
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Needle for Making Fish Net
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Fish Net
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE ?
Folding Fan with Fishing Net Decoration
Unidentified artist · late 16th–early 17th century

Fish net weight
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Fish net needle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Fish Net Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 580–640

Fish Net Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 580–640

North Side of the West Wall of Nakht's Offering Chapel
Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1914; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)
Christian Krohg · 1879

Fishermen drawing a net
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

The River
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864
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. 83 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 172196 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:59 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.