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 “Kimbel and Cabus” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Side Chair
Kimbel and Cabus · ca. 1875

armchair
Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882 · ca. 1870–73

Hanging Key Cabinet
Kimbel and Cabus · ca. 1874

Trixis californica var. peninsularis (S.F. Blake) C.E. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1892

Desk
Kimbel and Cabus · ca.1875

Poa trivialis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1966

Étagère
A. Kimbel and Sons · ca. 1885–90

Hypericum mutilum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1941

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Trophis mexicana (Liebm.) Bureau
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1940

Pair of Candelabra
Tiffany & Co. · 1884

Psiguria triphylla (Miq.) C. Jeffrey
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1940

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Peperomia glutinosa Millsp.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1940

Enthroned Jina, Probably Neminatha
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Lycianthes arrazolensis (J.M. Coult. & Donn. Sm.) Bitter
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1940
Plaque with Two Mudfish
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R. Br. ex Roem. & Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1940

An Extensive Panoramic Landscape with a Windmill
Jan Baptist Weenix · mid-17th century

Adiantopsis seemannii (Hook.) Maxon
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1940

Beaker with birds and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1973

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Spiraea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
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. 312 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1463858 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 03:34 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.