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. 17 shown for “Reading glass with two lenses (loupe)” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reading glass with two lenses (loupe)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Bootsy Collins style star-shaped mirrored lens sunglasses
Artist not stated in the record · 1993-2013

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Stereoscope
A. Mattey, French, founded 1872 · 1905-1920

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Eyeglasses from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Palepai maju (ceremonial banner)
Paminggir artists · 18th–19th century

Le loup et l'agneau
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1802

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz · 1628

Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark
Artist not stated in the record · 300–350

Glass beaker with inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Glass beaker with cut inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Glass beaker with inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Glass bowl with inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE
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. 180 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 342544 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 07:49 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.