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. 20 shown for “Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Wedding Cake of Sarah A. Meserole and Henry W. M. Meade
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · 1853

Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show
Artist not stated in the record · 2009

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Furniture Design: Elevation of a Pedestal or Case
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1690

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Chopsticks Set
Artist not stated in the record

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Design for a Door Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Duck
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Design for Elevation of a Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

Preserved Shoulder of Beef and Half of a Food Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Case for a Goose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1999

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Bottle in the shape of a feline
Wari artist(s) · 600–900 CE

The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century
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. 511 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. 3870175 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:41 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.