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 Gottlieb Lauffer” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Battle of Vigo Bay, 1702
Johann Gottlieb Lauffer · 1702

George Washington
Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800 · c. 1775-80

Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs
Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · 18th century

Basset Horn in F
Johann Gottlieb Freyer · ca. 1800

La Fraîcheur de la Soirée
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Battle of Gran and capture of Neuheuselden
Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer · 1685

Portrait of a Gentleman
Johann Gottlieb Glume, German, 1711 - 1778 · 1740-1770

Hoopoe (Wiedehoppe) (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Soup Tureen
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

Wagtail (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · 1733

Bombus (Bombus) terrestris
Artist not stated in the record · [Not Stated]

Fountain and basin
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32

Stephanomeria virgata subsp. pleurocarpa (Greene) Gottlieb
Artist not stated in the record

Lioness (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1732

Stephanomeria virgata subsp. pleurocarpa (Greene) Gottlieb
Artist not stated in the record · 1866

Portrait of Johann Gottlieb Samuel Rösel
Ludwig Emil Grimm

Stephanomeria virgata subsp. pleurocarpa (Greene) Gottlieb
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1900

Waxwing (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Stephanomeria diegensis Gottlieb
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1896

Self-Portrait
Johann Gottlieb Glume · 1740

Stephanomeria exigua subsp. coronaria (Greene) Gottlieb
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1900

Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1773–1859)
Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder · 1822

Stephanomeria exigua subsp. coronaria (Greene) Gottlieb
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
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. 71 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. 5911 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-01 20:11 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.