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. 14 shown for “Gable-topped Linen Chest” — 30 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 20:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gable-topped Linen Chest
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Yellow and white pinstripe dolman sleeve jakcet and skirt
Unidentified · 1950s

Gable–topped chest and linens
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Pink strapless taffeta gown with bow and tulle skirt
Best & Co., American, 1879 - 1970 · 1950s

Chest
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Chest
the Searle-Dennis shop tradition · 1685–1700

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Rectangular Linen Chest
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Linen Chest Reused as a Child's Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1396 BCE

Sheet with linen mark, coarse spin, medium weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Canopic Chest of Khonsu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Shirt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 20:29 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.