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. 12 shown for “Joseph Clare” — 64 records examined, 52 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Paten
Joseph Clare · 1716–17

Clare Boothe Luce
Artist not stated in the record · 1941

Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Plate
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1750

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

Plate
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1750

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · ca. 1350
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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 85383 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 16:29 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.