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. 18 shown for “Stopped double pipe with bellows” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:23 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

Scent flask
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Stopped double pipe with bellows
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Plate XI, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum
Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830
Letter carrier uniform jacket
Penn Garment Co. · 1956-1965

Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Floor tile
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Stopped Pipe with bellows
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th–late 19th century

Design for Doors
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

Double Stopped Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1757

Portative Organ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1889

Union Pipe
J. Sharp · early 19th century

Musette Baroque
Unknown · ca. 1700

Uilleann Pipe
Artist not stated in the record

Lowland Pipe
Artist not stated in the record

Bellows with the Flight into Egypt
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century or later
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 263506 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 14:23 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.