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. 12 shown for “Gold leaf frontlet (band for forehead)” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1830–60

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Frieze
Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1890–1900

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1885–89

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1900

Frieze
Frederick Beck & Co., 1860 · ca. 1877–78

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1900

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–35

Frieze
Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Artist not stated in the record · 1909

Army Field Grade Officer Service Dress Green cap worn by Maj. Gen. Colin Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1983-1986
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 474290 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-02 15:23 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.