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 “The Flims Room” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Flims Room
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84
Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Viola sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Thymus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1680

Gentiana sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux
Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Gentiana sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Dining room from Kirtlington Park
John Sanderson · 1748

Gentiana sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Vaccinium dentatum Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace
Abbondio Stazio · ca. 1720 or later

Primula sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Soldanella sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Primula sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Androsace sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Daphne striata Tratt.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955
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. 3616 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. 1184320 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 09:59 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.