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 “Shoulder Belt for a Powder Horn” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Red coatdress with window pane pattern and matching belt
Elizabeth Arden, Canadian, 1884 - 1966 · 1960s

Shoulder Belt for a Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · probably early 19th century

Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern
Unidentified · 1960s

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Cellulose nitrate powder box lid from dresser set owned by Lena Horne
Agalin, French · mid 20th Century

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Cellulose nitrate powder box from dresser set owned by Lena Horne
Agalin, French · mid 20th Century

Armored Cavalryman
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic
Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911 · mid 1990s

Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt
Unidentified · late 20th century

Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1759

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet
Unidentified · 1950s

Matchlock Musket (me mda')
Artist not stated in the record · barrel, probably 18th–19th century; stock and other fittings, probably mid-19th–early 20th century

Powder Flask
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Powder Horn of John Mahard
John Bush · Dated 1756

Inlaid Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
John Manton & Son · 1815–34
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. 254 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. 2091941 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:11 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.