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 “Samuel and Joseph Fuller, London, England” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 23:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Longcase clock with calendar
Joseph Knibb · ca. 1680–85

Ewer
Samuel Margas Jr. · ca. 1721

Chimneypiece from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Joseph Wilton · 1760

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Armchair (one of a set of six)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Head of Medusa
Benedetto Pistrucci · cameo 1840–50, mount ca. 1860

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
Samuel Brunn · hallmarked for 1800–1801

Basin
Samuel Margas Jr. · ca. 1721

Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Cream jug
Samuel Meriton · 1754–55
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. 1741 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 23:37 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.