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 “Proof for textile: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Proof for textile: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"
Artist not stated in the record · after 1761

Cuirassier Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610–30

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410
![Proof for textile: Don Quichotte [Don Quixote], by Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-3A675975C5D32-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Proof for textile: Don Quichotte [Don Quixote]
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Hector of Troy (?) (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Chair seat cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Right Breastplate from a Brigandine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Right breastplate from a brigandine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Woodblock Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Trial Proof for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893

Proof of Design for a Printed Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

Candlestick
Tiffany & Co. · 1878

Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"
Artist not stated in the record · after 1761
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. 35 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. 502851 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-08 12:31 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.