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 “Unfinished design for a Waistcoat” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1615–20

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · before 1906

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Unfinished Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals · early 1650s

Unfinished design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

Century Vase
Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Panels for a waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Design no. 339 for a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Unfinished cabinet panels
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790
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. 185 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2093376 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 10:23 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.