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. 17 shown for “Pacific Plantronics, Inc.” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Headset, Communications Carrier, Armstrong, Apollo 11
Pacific Plantronics, Inc.

Sunset Magazine
William Stevens · ca. 1900
Gracilaria salicornia (C. Agardh) E.Y. Dawson
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1991

Sunset Magazine, April
William Stevens · 1903
Betaphycus gelatinus (Esper) Doty ex P.C. Silva
Artist not stated in the record

Hazomanga finial
Sakalava artist · 17th–late 18th century

Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1985

Warrior Figure
Lower Niger Valley caster · 1455–1640

Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1985

Dugong Hunting Charm
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box
Sebastian Stoskopff · late 1620s

Harpoon Counterweight
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century (?)

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 100–300

Meeting with a Friend on an Autumn Day
Noro Kaiseki · 1822

Bamboo and Rock in Snow
Sakaki Hyakusen · 1750
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. 91 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 639712 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 11:52 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.