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. 17 shown for “Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish” — 45 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish
Artist not stated in the record · early 300s

Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Design for Side Serving Table with two shelves adorned by two Corinthian- column front supports on a two-drawer base
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · 1551

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City
Artist not stated in the record · 1955-1975

Garden of the Inept Administrator
Wen Zhengming · 1551

Hall stand
Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709 · ca. 1875

Sandra Gutiérrez’s Cast-Iron Skillet
Artist not stated in the record · Between 1985 and 2016

Tables
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome
Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873 · 1835

Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family
Unidentified · before 1870

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Tables
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

Table Design with Vases
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2282238 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 14:19 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.