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 “S. B.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cup with cover
Hans van Amsterdam · 1533/34

Joseph Thacher and Edward McGehee
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1844

Le pitture e sculture di Brescia che sono esposte al pubblico con un' appendice di alcune private gallerie
Luigi Chizzola · 1760

Mesua ferrea L.
Artist not stated in the record

Architectura Curiosa Nova: Das ist, neue ergotzliche Sinn und Kunstreiche auch nutzliche Bau- und Wasser-Kunst . . .
Georg Andreas Böckler · 1664

Clerodendrum viscosum Vent.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/5/62

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Quercus robur L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/4/62

Double-chambered bottle
Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Toxicopueraria peduncularis (Benth.) A.N. Egan & B. Pan
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/8/60

Document Sealings With the Throne Name of Amenhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Lonicera ligustrina Wall.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/4/62 to 9/1/19

Banjo
Hercules McCord · ca. 1884

Didymocarpus leucocalyx C.B. Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1960

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Symplocos cochinchinensis subsp. laurina (Retz.) Noot.
Artist not stated in the record · 6.10.60 ; 21.6.017
![[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France], by M. Leon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2F1982-1182-2499_recto.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France]
M. Leon · 1850s–1910s

Sarcococca coriacea Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/10/60 to 21/6/17

Pier table
Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) B.L. Burtt & A.W. Hill
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/4/62

Pomander
S. B. · ca. 1580

Androsace lanuginosa Wall.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/10/60 to 26/6/17

S-hoop earrings with pearls
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Primula glomerata Pax
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/10/60
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. 20134 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 1233431 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 09:16 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.