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 “Robert Boning” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing], by Robert Boning](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP700160.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing]
Robert Boning · 1850s

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
Artist not stated in the record · 521

Dionysos
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

George Washington
Robert Field · ca. 1800

Virgin and Child in an Apse
Robert Campin

Plaque from a Casket with a bird
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Plaque with an Eros
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Moon flask with fretwork center
Worcester factory · 1880

Vase (one of a pair)
Worcester factory · 1879

Moon flask
Worcester factory · 1878

Vase (one of a pair)
Worcester factory · 1879
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. 572 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. 178365 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 16:13 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.