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. 13 shown for “Lear Jet Corporation” — 45 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Lear Jet 23
Lear Jet Corporation · 1964-1966

Rocket, Liquid Fuel, Sounding, WAC Corporal
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology · ca. 1945-1950

Lear Green Escaping in a Chest
Unidentified Artist · 1872

Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1967

Lear and Cordelia
Richard Hatfield, English, born London, England 1809-died London, England 1867 · 1845

King Lear in the Storm
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877 · ca. 1842

McDonnell FH-1 Phantom I
McDonnell Aircraft Corp. · 1946

Edwin Forrest as King Lear in "King Lear"
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1861

Cordelia
Pierce Francis Connelly, born Grand Coteau 1841-died Rome, Italy 1932 · 1865

Helianthus pumilis Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Adoxa moschatellina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1897
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20378 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 11:52 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.