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. 23 shown for “The upper portion from a palmiform-shaped fan” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:56 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 upper portion from a palmiform-shaped fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1640 B.C.

Writing kit
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Dancer with a Fan
Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Five Floating Icebergs, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 5 and 6, 1859

Upper Portion of a Blue-painted Hathor Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Architectural Sketches, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1890–93

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Ed-Deir Rock Temple, Petra
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · late February 1868

Bust of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Pink floral lace dress with ruffled skirt
Tutti's Fashions, American · 1980s

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Beer straw
Ganda artist · Late 19th century

Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type E: 85% opacity)
Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008 · ca. 2013

Portions of a Parade Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Blue and black print men's ensemble by Jon Webb
Jon Webb · 1990s

Upper Part of a Door Panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Bouquet holder, tulip shape, filigree
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type A: 65% opacity)
Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008 · ca. 2013

View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
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. 698 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. 89 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:56 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.