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 “Little Wing Lee” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"
Little Wing Lee · 2016

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
Artist not stated in the record · 521

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"
Little Wing Lee · 2016

Tabernacle of Cherves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–1230

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"
Little Wing Lee · 2016

Relief plaque with the head of a ram deity
Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"
Little Wing Lee · 2016

Relief head of a child god
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Metal pin with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"
Little Wing Lee · ca. 2016

The Flims Room
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Story Little Gee Bee
Tom Story · 1947

Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite
Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/8/29

Girandole
William F. Shaw · after 1852

Carya glabra var. odorata (Marshall) Little
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1951

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother
Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1916

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/12/53

Wing chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1916

Folding Devotional Shrine with Scenes from Christ's Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
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. 499 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. 83719 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 2026-09-04 20:03 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.