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 “Plate with scholar and plum branches” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate with scholar and plum branches
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

6c Eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows vignette plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1938

Writing table (table à écrire)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755

6c Eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows frame plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1938

Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783

Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars
Mrs. Smith · ca. 1830

Candlestand
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1780

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)
Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Potpourri bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Ishizara with Warbler on a Flowering Plum Branch
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Salesman's sample
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Twenty-four-light chandelier (lustre) (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter
Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th century

Egyptomania candelabrum (one of a pair)
Alexis Decaix · ca. 1802–6

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · ca. 1757–1769

Pair of five-light candelabra
Luigi Valadier · 1774

Design for a Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair)
Matthew Boulton · ca. 1770

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · ca. 1757–1769

Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair)
Matthew Boulton · ca. 1770

1c Washington plate proof
Artist not stated in the record
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. 684 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1540795 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-29 08:28 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.