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 “Lake Sentani artist” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
House post figure
Lake Sentani artist · 19th century
Talipariti dalbertisii (F. Muell.) Fryxell
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1945

Lake George
John Frederick Kensett · 1869

Pothos papuanus Becc. ex Engl.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1961

Nose Ornament with Shrimp
Artist not stated in the record · 500-800 CE
Chloris barbata Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1945

Deceased Being Towed in a Boat, Tomb of Rekhmire
Nina de Garis Davies · ca. 1479–1396 BCE

Capillipedium parviflorum (R. Br.) Stapf
Artist not stated in the record · 1945

The Lake of Zug
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1843

Mangifera minor Blume
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1956

An Evening beside Lake Arresø
Johan Thomas Lundbye · ca. 1837

Rottboellia rottboellioides (R. Br.) Druce
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1945

Chalchiuhtlicue
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 1945

Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Arundinella setosa Trin.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1945

Icon triptych of Ewosṭatewos and eight of his disciples
Northern Highlands artist · late 17th century

Epipremnum amplissimum (Schott) Engl.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1961

Mountain Lake Scene
John William Casilear · 1883

Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1945

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57

Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · May 1945

Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Mucuna nova-guineensis Scheff.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1945
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. 1065 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 245290 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 07:26 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.