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 “Robert Laurie” — 57 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin and Child
Robert Laurie · 1772

Erigeron speciosus (Lindl.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2005

Dining room from Kirtlington Park
John Sanderson · 1748

Solidago velutina DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2005

A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye Water near ye Court at ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle. Oct. 18. 1748) & Exhibited June 13, 1749
Robert Laurie · 1794

Phoradendron tomentosum subsp. macrophyllum DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2005

A View of the Temple of Concord Erected in the Green Park, to Celebrate the Glorious Peace of 1814, Exhibiting the Fireworks on the 1st of August
Robert Laurie · September 9, 1814

Dicranum spurium Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1968

Flintlock Pistol Made for Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697)
Bertrand Piraube · dated 1676

Ulota hutchinsiae (Sm.) Hammar
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1968

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Andreaea rothii F. Weber & D. Mohr
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1968

The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter
Massimiliano Soldani · modeled 1722, probably cast 1730–35

Ruins of the Palatine Hill
Joseph Benoît Suvée · ca. 1772–76

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well
Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 5 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. 151795 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 2026-08-29 00:49 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.