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 Valance with Theme of the "Hundred Antiques"” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 08:46 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 Valance with Theme of the "Hundred Antiques"
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

A Room in Schloss Buchwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863 · 1840–45

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Cabinet card studio portrait of a man standing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1896

The Demidoff Table
Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

The Red Room, Schloss Fischbach
Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863 · ca. 1846

Panel with Set of Purses with Theme of the “Hundred Antiques”
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Valances
Wetter Freres, France, 1802 · late 18th century

Boy with water buffalo
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1783–89

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Le Jouer de Cornemuse (The Bagpipe Player)
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Panurge dans I'ile des lanternes
Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–90
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. 151 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 3014731 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-10 08:46 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.