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. 16 shown for “Too Corporation, Japanese, founded 1919” — 48 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 15:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Orange copic sketch marker used by architect Michael Marshall
Too Corporation, Japanese, founded 1919 · ca. 2013

Fan Mount: Dancers
Edgar Degas · 1879

Rose mallow
Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · Probably 19th century

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Agano ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1630

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Ryogoku Bridge
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · early 19th century

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Writing box
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Karatsu ware ewer or freshwater jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, January 29
Artist not stated in the record · January 29, 1918

Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant
Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1696

The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace
Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590) · 16th century
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 115089 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 15:45 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.