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 “Hat Stand (One of a Pair)” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hat Stand (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Standing frame
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Standing shelf (one of a pair)
William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Photographic print of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and another woman in front of car
Unidentified · 1926

Stand
William Sprats · 1778–81

Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse
Unidentified · 1980s

Zemí cohoba stand
Taíno artist(s) · ca. 1000 CE

Sketches of Theodore Cole, Cow Legs, and a Tree, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and September 1844

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Floral Arch on Stand (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Floral Arch on Stand (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Snuffer Stand
Cornelius Kierstede · ca. 1705

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men
Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1914

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Photographic postcard of three unidentified men
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918
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. 7494 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3971620 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-07 23:22 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.