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 “Straight chisel (gui圭) with face and bird” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Set of Sixty-Two Engraving Tools of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904)
Louis Daniel Nimschke · 19th century

Straight chisel (gui圭) with face and bird
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3000-ca. 1700 BCE

Beaker with face
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Straight chisel (gui 圭)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5000-ca.1700 BCE

Beaker with face
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Straight chisel (gui 圭), fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1050 BCE

Spout-and-bridge bottle with feline face
Paracas artist(s) · 800–550 BCE

Straight chisel (gui 圭)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5000-ca. 1700 BCE

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Broad chisel (gui 圭) , fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300-1050 BCE

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Panel from a Rectangular Box
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop
Unidentified · 1900-1950

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Side chair
John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

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

Teapot
Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851 · 1790–91

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Side chair and slip seat
John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820
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. 49 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. 2091419 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.