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. 22 shown for “Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Countess Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova (1739–1792)
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · 1762

Creamer and lid
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · 1767–70

Man with a Lute
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Kremlin Service
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1830

Anthony Van Dyck, Self Portrait
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Plate
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1780

Dr. Lazarus Markijzus
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Jug and lid
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

Girl Playing a Recorder
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Rumex confertus Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1976

Woman with a Mirror
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Charger, from the "St. Andrew" Service ("St. Andreas" Service)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1744–1745

Jan Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Urtica urens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1942

Old Woman with a Book
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Urtica dioica L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1920

Old Woman
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Rumex thyrsiflorus Fingerh.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1976

Hannah and the Infant Samuel
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Soup Plate
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · 1756–early 1760s

Seated Woman
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Young Woman with a Pink
Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th 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. 186 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. 65211 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 15:36 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.