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. 23 shown for “Lacquer Covers of the Davis Album” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

An album, bound in painted leather covers, containing paintings and calligraphies
Artist not stated in the record · Assembled in 18th century

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Cartoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Union Patriotic Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

Lacquer Covers of the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1217 AH/ 1802–3 CE

Union Patriotic Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Box and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Union Patriotic Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Patch box and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments
Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops · 1870s–1880s

Revenge
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Commode
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)
Kaikei · early 13th century

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

Cuirass (Hara-Ate)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Mechanical table à la Bourgogne
René Dubois · ca. 1760
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. 1192 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. 3002490 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:08 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.