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 with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman Holding a Papyrus Umbel” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:30 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 with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman Holding a Papyrus Umbel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

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

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Knife with Multi-Colored Enamel Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1700

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–1525 BCE

Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

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

Design for Two Candlesticks
Unknown · early 19th century

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

Layla and Majnun
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Chimneypiece Decoration for a Large Apartment
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated
Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Dressing stand with mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2291 BCE

Two Chimneypiece Designs
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727
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. 195 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7484514 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 06:30 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.