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 “Photograph of a woman holding a parasol” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:46 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 grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Photograph of a woman holding a parasol
Artist not stated in the record · early 1890s

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Photograph of a woman holding a closed parasol
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Tintype of a woman standing with parasol
Unidentified · 1880s

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Group portrait of women photographed by Charles Franklin Moss
Artist not stated in the record · 1912

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

A Woman with a Parasol
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Man and Woman
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1881–1882

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Chinese Promenade
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

Bronze statuette of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Processional
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Terracotta statuette of a woman holding a bird
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Processional
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
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. 2556 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. 3888103 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 22:46 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.