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 “Johannes Andreas Niefind” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
ex "Kurtz" Violin
Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

A "Forum"
Johann Andréas Pfeffel, German, 1674–1748 · 1740

Combination Flintlock Pistol and Sword
Johannes Andreas Niefind · ca. 1740

I.G.R. Andreae, in Hannover
Artist not stated in the record · 1786

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

Jewelry Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Jewelry Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Jewelry and Ornament Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

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

Sword Hilt (Handles) and Guard Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Title Page
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Designs for Jewelry, Clasps, Fans, Mirror, and Bookbinding
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

Tobit Burying the Dead
Andrea di Lione · 1640s

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

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Title Page
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter · ca. 1760–70

Stage Design: Garden Scene with a Fountain, Part V, Plate 8, "Architettura e Prospettive," Augsburg
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · 1740–44

A Masked Ball in Bohemia
Andreas Altomonte · ca. 1748

Stage Design: Garden Scene with Fountain, plate 8, part 5, from "Architetture e Prospettive dedicate alla Maestà di Carlo Sesto"
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–44
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. 207 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. 8142 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 20:44 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.