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. 14 shown for “The Dreye Porceleyne Flesschen” — 42 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fruit dish
The Dreye Porceleyne Flesschen · 18th century

Carex ornithopoda Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1944

Fruit dish
The Dreye Porceleyne Flesschen · ca. 1770

FE: URTIC: ROM
Pennis, Johannis · 1723-1789

Stitching pony belonging to and used by William Sugg
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850s

Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim
Unidentified · ca.1895

Cream lace wedding gown with corded floral motifs
Annie Hauer, American · 1895

Cream dress with floral lace and embroidery
Unidentified · ca.1920

White and navy hat with asymmetrical brim
Jacki · 1960s-1970s

Floral brocade jacket and skirt with fringe hem
Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

Dress designed by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · mid 20th century

Black textured wool bodice and skirt with lace
Unidentified · 1890s

Mudcloth ensemble created by Twain's Twines
Twain's Twines, American, founded 1990 · 1990s

Plastic straw hat with net and fabric flowers
Miss Eileen · ca. 1965
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1183772 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-03 02:49 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.