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 “Johann Adam Seupel” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Comet Above Strasbourg at Night
Johann Adam Seupel · n.d.

Membership Certificate, "Robert Sterling"
Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon · ca 1865

Alto Recorder in F
Johann Benedikt Gahn · ca. 1700

Going Down to Gethsemane
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Furth, Germany 1823-died Vienna, VA 1909 · 1898

Natural Trumpet
Johann Wilhelm Haas · late 17th century

Pedicularis amoena Adams ex Stev.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1879

"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service
Elias Adam · ca. 1710

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1680

Table centerpiece
Johann Jakob Adam · 1765–67

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1680

Folding spoon
Johann Adam Boller · early 18th century

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1680

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Gladiolus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Spring 1928

Harlequin
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony
Paul Preuning · ca. 1547–50

Goblet
Johann Jakob Adam, ca. 1720 – 1791 · ca. 1751–53

Portrait of Johann Christian Brand
Adam von Bartsch · 1793

Polypodium affine G. Forst.
Artist not stated in the record

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Walter Johannes Damrosch
Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1944

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Pteris humilis G. Forst.
Artist not stated in the record
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. 156 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. 19292 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 18:23 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.