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. 19 shown for “Six Figures of Tarters” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 13:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Six Figures of Tarters
Artist not stated in the record · 1775

Plate with the Arming of David
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630
Opera (Peep-show)
Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756 · 1730–50

Plate with the Presentation of David to Saul
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 8th century

Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)
Kaikei · early 13th century

Incarvillea sinensis Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1930

The Mourning Virgin
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Six of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

St. John the Evangelist
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Design with Classical and Winged Figures
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th–early 19th century

Six of the Twelve Divine Generals (Jūni shinshō)
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Six of Clubs
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Figures with a Vase of Flowers, from "Nouveau Cahier de Six Feuilles De Différents Sujets Chinois Historiés"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1728-1808
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. 1292 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2865575 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-10 13:30 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.