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 “Tenor Cornetto in D” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tenor Cornetto in D
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Androsace helvetica (L.) All.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/8/84

Tenor Cornetto in D
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Geum montanum L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1923

Tenor valve trombone
Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax · ca. 1863

Rubus saxatilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1924

Tenor Cornetto in G
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Ficus ischnopoda Miq.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1990

Bala
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Ixonanthes icosandra Jack
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1990
Cornetto in D or C
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century (?)

Tenor Violoncello
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Alto or Tenor Cornopean
Melchior Gomar de Vries · 1837–50

Tenor Sarrusophone in B flat
Gautrot-Marquet · ca. 1856–89

The Demidoff Table
Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845

Punch Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1751

Saint Francis in Ecstasy
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650
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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7462446 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 17:44 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.