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. 18 shown for “Item of ephemera with name Carrie Roby” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 22:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Item of ephemera with name Carrie Roby
Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Letter F, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"
Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

A Ride on an Ocean Steed
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
![Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1C659AF56D752-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718 · 1683

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

The Open Table for the Three Uppermost Classes of Men of Lower Austria
Christian Engelbrecht, German, 1672–1753 · 1705

Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector
Johann G. Racine · case ca. 1688, movement ca. 1750

Placard stating "I AM A MAN" carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in 1968 Memphis March
Artist not stated in the record · 1968

Cup with a Poem on Wine
Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi · second half 10th–11th century

Valentine
Anonymous · ca. 1880

Bottle with masked figure
Nasca artist(s) · 200–400 CE

Palma with textile motif
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 800–1100 CE

Shabti of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II
Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Stela of Dedu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1952 B.C.
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. 69 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7484882 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 22:24 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.