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. 18 shown for “Program for Club Ebony” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Program for Club Ebony
Artist not stated in the record · 1947-1948

Wheellock Rifle
Caspar Spät · dated 1668

Program for Club Ebony
Artist not stated in the record · 1947-1948

Oboe in C
Hendrik Richters · before 1727

Hercules Club, Ebony Swamp Cerith, Club Mud Whelk
Artist not stated in the record

Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation.
Reinhold Vasters · second half 16th century (panels); ca. 1865–90 (frame)

Poster for Ebony Parade
Artist not stated in the record · 1947

Grand Pianoforte
Érard · ca. 1840

Flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884

Inlaid Box for the Portuguese Market
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1600

Flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell with original instrument case
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884

Female figurine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

The Flight into Egypt
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325
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 · 3 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. 567420 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:18 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.