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 “Sign bracket” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Shop bracket and sign
Artist not stated in the record · bracket ca. 1740–50

Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design
Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

Sign bracket
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design
Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

Winchester Model 1894 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 311946) with Box of Sights
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1906

Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design
Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Sign from a segregated bus
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Rectangular table
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Wrought Iron Staircase Balustrade and Bracket Designs
Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

Engraved spouted jar
Maya artist(s) · 50 BCE–100 CE

Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

The Golden Age
Joachim Wtewael · 1605

Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Secretary-bookcase
Robert Fisher · 1825–35

Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

"Balloon" Shelf Clock
Simon Willard · 1780–90

Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Console avec son profil
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

Standing shelf (one of a pair)
William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Console avec son profil
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 16049 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 14:17 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.