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 “Qur'an Bookbinding Inset with Turquoise” — 41 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Qur'an Bookbinding Inset with Turquoise
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Le Printemps from Les Quatre Saisons
Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, French, 1725–1811 · ca. 1785

Sidewall
Defosse et Karth · 1820–35

The Glorious Qur'an
Artist not stated in the record · 1975

Coffeepot with Inset
Johann Christian Ibert · 1760

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Certificate of Membership in the Book-binder's Guild
I E W, active 1750s · 1750

Towel
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Darning sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1811

Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Arming Press
Gough, John · ca 1871

Gilt bronze plaque with animals in a landscape
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE

Sidewall and borders
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810
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. 250397 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 11:36 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.