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. 21 shown for “Square Tray with Recessed Medallion” — 49 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 09:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Square Tray with Recessed Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Ceiling paper
Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Tureen and Stand
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

Square "Work Box" Piano
S. Hart & Son · first quarter 19th century

"Henry Clay" cigar box
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Square "Work Box" Piano
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Square
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Standing figure
Tiwanaku artist(s) · 500–1000 CE

Design for Sideboard with Serpentine Front and Ball and Claw Feet
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 1866

Textile Fragment with Mamluk Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

Tray
Artist not stated in the record · early to mid 19th century

Design for Sideboard with Ten Drawers and Ball and Claw Feet
A.N. Davenport Co. · April 21, 1905

Design for Sideboard with Cabriole Legs and Ball and Claw Feet
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 256822 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-30 09:27 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.