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. 22 shown for “Kunda (Double Bell)” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kunda (Double Bell)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Design for a Bell and Belfry
Artist not stated in the record · 1739

Kunda
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1927

Kunda (bell)
Mayumba people · late 19th century

Combretum hypopilinum Diels
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1927

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Cabinet card of Susan Bell
Artist not stated in the record · February-March 5, 1894

Double Horn in F / B-flat
Eduard Kruspe · 1904–19

Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1927

Double Bell
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Medicago sativa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1930

Monastery Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 15, 1859

Carnelian bell-shaped stamp seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1600 BCE

Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jan 1927

Bell (Ekure)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th–mid 19th century

Tassel
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Oboe
Johann Heinrich Grenser · ca. 1806–13

Cabinet card portrait of John R. Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Rhaita (Al ghaita)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Oboe in C
Jacob Denner · before 1735
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. 253 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 20947 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:33 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.