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. 23 shown for “Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model” — 53 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1853

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

Lantern and Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1867-08-06

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1862-06-10

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-12-19

Christ's Descent into Hell
Hieronymus Bosch

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-09-26

Grand Piano
Steinway & Sons · 1868

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1859-07-19

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation
Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480

Hassock-Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-09-16

Pedal Harp
Lyon & Healy · 1891–95

Foot Warmer for Vehicles Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1876-12-12

Street vendor
Mennecy · ca. 1750–60

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1862-07-22

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 16th century?

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1847-03-20

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · first half of the 16th century?

Sad Iron Heater, Nurse Lamp, and Foot Stove Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1868-03-24

Foot Warmer Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-05-16
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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1476534 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 2026-09-01 14:08 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.