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. 15 shown for “Fork Tines with Threaded Screw Base” — 54 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Set of six forks (part of a set)
Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick · 1767–71

Fork Tines with Threaded Screw Base
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Set of six forks (part of a set)
Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick · 1767–71

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Sea monster
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · ca. 1500–1510

Longcase clock with calendar and alarm
Ahasuerus II Fromanteel · ca. 1690–94

Cutlery sheath and cap
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Fork Tines with Threaded Screw End for Attaching Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

Sea monster
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · early 16th century

Samson and the Philistines
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1550

Tarquin and Lucretia
Hubert Gerhard · 1605–10
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 315728 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 21:08 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.