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 “Franz Fischer” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair)
Franz Fischer · early 17th century

Serpocaulon latipes (Langsd. & Fischer) A.R. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1902

Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair)
Franz Fischer · early 17th century

Serratula tinctoria subsp. monticola (Boreau) Berher
Artist not stated in the record · 187

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

Exterior of Fort. Fischer, North Carolina
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born Ireland 1840-died New York City 1882 · ca. 1864

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Love amid ruin
Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1756

Saint Erhard
Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Pair of sconces
Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Rapier
Pietro de Formicano · ca. 1610–20

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Island of the Dead
Arnold Böcklin · 1880

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Upholstery panels for a settee
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64
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. 25 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. 5634 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:50 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.