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. 12 shown for “Power Jets, Ltd. (London, England)” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inkstand
Daniel Garnier · 1697–98

Whittle W.1X Turbojet Engine
Power Jets, Ltd. (London, England) · 1941

Cabinet
Jackson & Graham · ca. 1870–75

Songs: "Music hath power to melt the Soul..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822

Helmet (Sallet)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Armor for a Member of the Barberini Family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1623–30

Square wine container (fang)
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

"The Wedding of Siyavush and Farangis", Folio 185v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525–30
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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 58981 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:31 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.