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. 9 shown for “Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Maple Tree and River” — 40 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Robed woman with two children and a goat
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Maple Leaves Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Trees near Mt. Katahdin, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1876

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Mill Brook, North Conway, New Hampshire
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · August 1854

Rabbit in the Moon
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Autumn Foliage, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1838498 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:13 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.