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. 12 shown for “Tomb model of a foot-powered mill” — 40 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tomb model of a foot-powered mill
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

Upper grindstone from a tomb model of a mill
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

Left Foot
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

Catherine Hampton
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1849

1837 Crompton's Patent Model of a Power Loom
Artist not stated in the record · 1837-11-25

Patent Model of a Numbering and Paging Machine
Sine, Alpheus C. · ca 1871

Cottle Windmill, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Howe’s Patent Model of a Pin Making Machine - ca 1841
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1841

America
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · 1848-1850

1837 Thorp's Patent Model of a Loom Shuttle Tongue
Artist not stated in the record · 1837-04-17

Patent Model of a Steam Steering Apparatus, 1860
Artist not stated in the record · 1860

Cleopatra
Margaret Foley, born likely Northern VT 1827-died Meran, Austria-Hungary (now Merano, Italy) 187 · modeled ca. 1871, carved 1876
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 69 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.