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 “Unknown Designer” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Design for Wallpaper or Textile of Daisy-Type Flower with Repeat
Unknown · ca. 1860

Leucothoë fontanesiana (Steud.) Sleumer
Artist not stated in the record · 189

View of the Interior of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Brooklyn, Looking West Toward the Rose Window
Unknown · 1902

Variations of design for surtout de table (in two parts)
Unknown · ca. 1770–75

Variations of design for surtout de table (in two parts)
Unknown · ca. 1770–75

Silver salts, mustard pots
Unknown · ca. 1800

Primavera
Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · 1925

The Tyler Tube & Pipe Co., Washington, Pennsylvania
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Point-paper (mise-en-carte), Design for Woven Silk
Unknown · ca. 1760

Three Designs for Embroidery Scissors
Unknown, Italian · early–mid-19th century
Miner's Safety Lamp
Artist not stated in the record

Design of an Altar mensa
Unknown, Italian · 1650-1675
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. 1982 matched · 24 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 486260 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-28 11:20 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.