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. 14 shown for “Joint Stool” — 62 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Joint stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

stool, joint
Artist not stated in the record

Joint stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Platform step stool used by Pullman Palace Car Company
Artist not stated in the record · 1910-1950

Joint stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–90

Joint stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Joint Stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Joint Stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Joint Stool
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Seated binukedine ( priest)
Dogon blacksmith · 18th–19th century

Stool (tabouret)
Friedrich Gilly · ca. 1805–10

Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1500

Lion Ornament
Asante-Akan artist · 19th century

Lion Ornament
Asante-Akan artist · 19th 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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 7 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. 6704 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:04 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.