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. 10 shown for “P. B., Paris” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 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.

Railings for Chapels, from "Clostures de Chapelles"
Artist not stated in the record · 1659

Scrapbook of textile and ribbon swatches
Artist not stated in the record · 1900–15

Dicranoloma blumii (Nees) Paris
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1904

Ichnanthus panicoides P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1994

Oplismenus burmannii (Retz.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record
![Differents Desseins de Tabatieres, premiere planche [Different Designs for Snuff Boxes], p. 49 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26803_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Differents Desseins de Tabatieres, premiere planche [Different Designs for Snuff Boxes], p. 49 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Crouching Woman
Auguste Rodin, French, b. Paris, 1840–1917 · 1880-1882/enlarged 1907-1911/cast 1962

Friezes: Title Page for the set "Frises Feuillages et autres Ornemens..."
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1650–60

Ceiling, from "Grands Carts de Plafons"
Artist not stated in the record · 1661

Design for Letter ‘B’
Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796 · mid- 18th–late 18th century
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. 1004885 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 23:14 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.