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. 24 shown for “Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Pemadumcook Pines, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Young Pines
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1862

Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830

Echo Lake, Morning
Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915 · 1878

Box with Design of Pines Along the Shore
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–1851

Pier Table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Storm Coming
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1884

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Dudleya sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 1903

Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Sidewall on board
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

Incense Box (Kōbako) in the Shape of Three Overlapping Jars
Barthélémy Paviet · mid-18th century

Rocky Peak above Pines and a Rowboat
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1868

The Young Saint John the Baptist
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1480–82

Chocorua Mountain from Cara's Pond, New Hampshire
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · September 28, 1854

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Souvenir program for the 17th Annual Pine Street Y Circus
Artist not stated in the record · 1951

Crucifix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Pemadumcook Pine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878
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. 36 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. 3305611 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 21:39 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.