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 “Table Cover with a Coat of Arms” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Table cover or chalice cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories
Charles Moore · ca. 1825

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Unknown · ca. 1890

Flintlock Longrifle
Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)
Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Table Cover with a Coat of Arms
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Coat
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp
Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France
Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1747

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Etui and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Hot Water Urn
Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s · 1770–1771

Table
Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)
![Melchizedek Brings Bread and Wine to Abraham [above]; Unicorn Hunt [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7872_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Melchizedek Brings Bread and Wine to Abraham [above]; Unicorn Hunt [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1584–1605

Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories
Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert · ca. 1855

Title Page
Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1730
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. 3161 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3886024 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-08 09:36 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.