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. 13 shown for “Portrait of Thakur Utham Ram” — 41 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Thakur Utham Ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Cygnus columbianus
Artist not stated in the record

Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Design for a Cartel Clock
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1700–1715

Divers Vases posé sur des Socles
Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

Ornament Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

Designs for Three Pedestals
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

Designs for Fountains
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Title Page and Staircase Balustrade Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · late 18th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings
Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

Ram's Head
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Cartoon for Silk Damask: Cornucopias with Rams' Heads
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

Ornamental Vase Design
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2862905 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 17:04 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.