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 “Needlework Picture with Maypole Scene” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Needlework Picture with Maypole Scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

"Winter" Needlework Picture
Hannah Jane Robinson · 1819

Les Quatre Saisons
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · late 18th century

Embroidered Picture
Elizabeth Folwell's School · ca. 1800

The Four Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · 1770

The Shepherdess of the Alps
Evelina Hull · ca. 1812

Married
Kelloggs & Thayer · 1846

Cabinet with personifications of the Five Senses
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century
Memorial to George Washington
Artist not stated in the record

Hector Taking Leave of His Family
Lucy Coit Huntington · 1810

Lady of the Lake
Kelloggs & Comstock · 1848-1849

Embroidered picture with farmyard scene
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

The Riddle
Robinson, Henry R. · ca 1843

Panel with Biblical vignettes
Artist not stated in the record · 1667

Little Brother and Sister
Gemmell, John · n.d.

Embroidered picture with hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

Married
Kelloggs & Comstock · 1850

Embroidered picture with pastoral scene
Artist not stated in the record · 1761

Single
Kelloggs & Thayer · 1846

Embroidered picture with mythological scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 1702
Joseph's Dream
Dexter, Lucy · 1809

Musical Party in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · 1647

The Spaniard
Robinson, Henry R. · 1833-1843
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. 34 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. 257056 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 01:26 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.