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 “Leslie speaker cabinet owned by James Brown” — 58 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Leslie speaker cabinet owned by James Brown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1968

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

President James Buchanan and his cabinet
McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

James Gillespie Blaine
David H. Anderson, 1827 - after 1906 · c. 1884

The Agony in the Garden
Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

James Gillespie Blaine
Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1880

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1906

Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

James G. Blaine
Thure de Thulstrup, 1848 - 1930 · 1880

Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s

James Gillespie Blaine
Unidentified Artist · 1884

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Signed guitar and case owned by James Brown
Artist not stated in the record · 2002

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Black cape owned by James Brown
Unidentified · 1970-1989

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

James Gillespie Blaine
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

James Gillespie Blaine
Julius Mayer, 1857 - 1884? · c. 1884

Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso)
Agostino Carracci · 1600–02

James Gillespie Blaine
J. H. Bufford's Sons Lithography Co., active 1870 - 1890 · 1884
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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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. 678110 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-04 21:22 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.