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. 16 shown for “Slotted Spoon with Rosette Motif” — 44 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 15:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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

Slotted Spoon with Rosette Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Astrolabe
Regiomontanus · 1462

SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES.
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Vinaigrette
Joseph Taylor · 1806

Cutlery Designs
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Inkstand
John Plimmer · 1802

CUILLIERES ET FOURCHETTES
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Surtout et Sucrier pour le Café
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1796

SUCRIER A CAFÉ
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Slotted Spoon with Scalloped Edge
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Plan et Elévation d'un Salon du côté de la Cheminée
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 258639 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 15:10 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.