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. 15 shown for “Organ Case with Arms of P” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Organ Case with Arms of P
Artist not stated in the record · 1655–67

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Comb Case with Wig and Lice Combs
Artist not stated in the record · 1671

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Project: The elevation of an organ case
Artist not stated in the record · 1793

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Saber with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Six-Barreled Pepperbox Disk Primer Pistol with Case and Accessories
Joseph Rock Cooper · ca. 1840–1850

Dagger with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · 1605–27

Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols with Accessories
François Pirmet · ca. 1810

Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)
Israel Schuech · dated 1606

Costume Armor and Sword in the Classical Style
Hallé · ca. 1788–90

Over-and-Under Flintlock Pocket Pistol of the Hughes of Gwerclas Family with Case and Accessories
Joseph Egg · ca. 1815–20
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. 7269 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. 3219517 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 08:51 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.