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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 “Knave of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Knave of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Knave of Hearts (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland)
William Penhallow Henderson, born Medford, MA 1877-died Tesuque, NM 1943
The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
The Flood, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"
Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871
Knave of Horns, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Alexander the Great, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"
Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871
6 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Children Building a House of Cards
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759
5 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Eight of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
4 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Five of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
1 of Horns, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Three of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
Queen of Nooses, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Six of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
10 of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Jack of Clubs
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
8 of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Seven of Clubs
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
7 of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Four of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
5 of Nooses, from The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Ace of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 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. 60 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. 3080030 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.