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 “Jane Simonton Chapman” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Embroidered sampler
Jane Simonton Chapman · 1808

Fissidens exilis Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · May 2009

Tablecover
Jane Simonton Chapman · ca. 1820

Fissidens taxifolius Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

Quilted Tablecover
Jane Simonton Chapman · 1821–25

Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

Tablecover
Jane Simonton Chapman · ca. 1820

Oncophorus wahlenbergii Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

Pillow Slip
Jane Simonton Chapman · 1821–25

Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1950

Embroidered whitework coverlet
Jane Simonton Chapman · ca. 1821–25

Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

Charles Henry Augustus Carter
Nicholas Biddle Kittell · ca. 1845
Jatropha multifida L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1954

Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals · early 1650s
Caulerpa prolifera (Forssk.) J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1968

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Eugenia uniflora L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1954

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (Kunth) Cabrera
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1955

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Terminalia catappa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1951

Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Tribulus cistoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1951
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 9407 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-08 09:36 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.