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 “Mitre Shaped Cap” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mitre Shaped Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–14th century

Livery trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mitre Shaped Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–early 14th century

Newport Light Infantry Miter Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 1774

Gondola prow in the shape of a doge's cap
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 1829

Portrait of Dr. Juan Caramuel de Loblokowitz
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680-1690

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Cap crown
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Cap streamers
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th to early 18th century

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Cap streamers
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 19th century

Cap streamer
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Bronze pilos (helmet of conical shape)
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE or later

Cap crown
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Limestone head of a man wearing a helmet
Artist not stated in the record · middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE
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. 291 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. 37867 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 23:21 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.