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 “Matchsafe in the Form of a Boot” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Finial in the Form of a Parrot
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Matchsafe in the Form of a Boot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Boot
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Boot with Spur
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Terracotta askos in the form of a boar
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Filigree Shoe
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Worn Shoe Sole
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Matchsafe in the form of a Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Crowned Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Boot
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Matchsafe in the form of a domino
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Matchsafe
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Matchsafe and Cigar Cutter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

Blanket Chest
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1835–75

Female Skier
Webster Company · ca. 1900
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. 17489 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. 7484477 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 20:17 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.