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 “Ivy and Blossoms on a Checkered Board” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 03:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Game Board
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Ivy and Blossoms on a Checkered Board
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

LE DAMIER
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1753-1757

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Button
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Marsh-Bowl of Rennefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–30

Set of twelve red terracotta balls
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or early 3rd century BCE

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Irises on Banded Ground
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Etui
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · probably first half 16th century

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 3015798 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 03:26 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.