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 “Support Bar” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Support Bar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Guitar
Johann Anton Stauffer · ca. 1835–40

birdcage
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

Latch, Support, Bar, and Catch
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1800

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

Gondola prow
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Design for a Dish Stand with Extending Arms and a Small Spirit Lamp
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · ca. 1800

Book Cover with Crucifixion Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Piano Harmonica
J. B. Cramer & Co. · ca. 1870–96

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

Rock Harmonicon
William Till · ca. 1880

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard mediates a dispute between Bishop Stephan von Bar and Duke Matthew von Lothringen in Metz (one of two)
Artist not stated in the record · after 1535

Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca)
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

Keyboard Glockenspiel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Kourt King croquet game set caddy from Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · 1444

John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Lyre Guitar
Gennaro Fabricatore · 1807

Andiron
Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1825
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. 203 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. 20122 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-04 05:32 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.