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. 18 shown for “Master I.B.” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mars, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1528

Botanical Alphabet Cross-Stitch
Ira Blount · 1994

Venus, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1529

Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1959

Mercury, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1528

Dillenia aurea Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/6/8

Sun, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1528

Orthosiphon rubicundus (D. Don) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1968

Jupiter, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1528

Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1984

Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1525

Spizella passerina passerina
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1860

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79
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. 1044 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4452 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:32 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.