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 “Mirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Knife with Engraved Mythical and Biblical Figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1621

Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Teapot
Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851 · 1790–91

Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Angel Playing Lute; Verso Angels with Cross
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Ornament Panel Design
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

The Curiosity of the Chinese
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–1790

Rebecchino
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Ornamental Frame Design
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · 1784–1792

Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1386 BCE

"Ornamental Design with Cross at Center," Plate 2 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"
Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)
Washing Painter · ca. 430–420 BCE

Sketches of a Woman with a Lute, Study for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1871–72

Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman Holding a Papyrus Umbel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Senses of Smell and Hearing
Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th century
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. 151 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. 2614735 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-03 04:40 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.