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. 20 shown for “Music stand used by Ginger Smock” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Music stand used by Ginger Smock
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

Combined work, writing, and reading table and music stand
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775–80

Promotional card for the The Shipmates & Ginger
Artist not stated in the record · 1960s

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

Ring owned by Ginger Smock
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

Clavichord
Christian Kintzing · 1763

Swan shaped ring holder owned by Ginger Smock
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Advertisement for a Maceo Pinkard record
Artist not stated in the record · 1961

Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Violin owned by Ginger Smock
Ferdinand August Homolka, Czech, 1828 - 1890 · 1849

Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Standing Lady
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Cloud Figures and Dead Birch, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844

Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Travelling Boat being Rowed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

ex "Kurtz" Violin
Andrea Amati · ca. 1560
Figure with conical headdress and shield
Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE
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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 736004 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 00:31 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.