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 “Small Cuff with Concentric Circles” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Small Cuff with Concentric Circles
Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–CE 200

Sleeve cuff
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Textile
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Ceiling paper
William H. Mairs and Company, Brooklyn, New York · 1905–1915

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

The Crucifixion
Jan Provoost · ca. 1495

Plate 12 of the Recueil d' ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique...
Etienne Joseph Daudet, French, 1672 - 1730 · 1732

Glass pyxis with lid
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Wooded Vale, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1865

Glass hexagonal amphoriskos
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

Glass pyxis (box with lid)
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 9th century BCE

Wool sweater for the Eastern Colored League
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1928

Glass jar in the shape of a bunch of grapes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Album of Drawings
Filippo Juvarra · 1678–1736

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal
Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834
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. 163 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. 307806 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-29 00:06 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.