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 “Insignia of the Order of the Precious Crown, Paulownia” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Insignia of the Order of the Precious Crown, Paulownia
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

U.S. Army forage cap
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

U.S. Army forage cap
Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1865

Staff finial with seated woman
"Master of the Frontal Concentric Circles" · 19th century

Women's US Army Service beret worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
Custom Hat Corporation, American · 1980

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

US Navy dress uniform hat worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as commander
Artist not stated in the record · 1999

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Brown fur felt hat with ribbon hat band
Julius Garfinckel & Co, American, 1905 - 1990 · 1970s

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Army Field Grade Officer Service Dress Green cap worn by Maj. Gen. Colin Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1983-1986

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Women's US Army Service hat worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
Sam Bonk Uniform and Civilian Cap Company, American, founded 1963 · 1980

The Visitation
Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

Design for a Badge of the Sicilian Military Order
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping
Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–80

Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564)
Kunz Lochner · dated 1549

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
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. 843 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. 2986369 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 01:25 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.