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 “Fragment of a Turban-Shaped Thumb Rest” — 56 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment of a Turban-Shaped Thumb Rest
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

Ewer with Pomegranate-shaped Thumb Rests
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand resting on a dove
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1850

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Fragment of a Luster-Painted Handle with Thumb Rest
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Fabric piece with whitework embroidery
Artist not stated in the record · 1828-1850

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Three Peasants in Conversation
Albrecht Dürer, German, b. Nuremberg, 1471–1528 · (1497-1498)

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Man in Prayer
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Kourt King croquet game set hoops from Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

La Mano Poderosa
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1925

Fragment of a Handle with Wavy Band and Rosette-Shaped Thumb Rest
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Patent Model for Hosley Ship's Model Measurer, 1851
Artist not stated in the record · 1851

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE
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. 780 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 32 matched · 32 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:47 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.