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. 18 shown for “Upright bell (nao)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Upright bell (nao)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Upright piano used by Thom Bell at Philadelphia International Records
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Upright bell (nao)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Bell (Yongzhong)
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–3rd century BCE

Watch-tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York
Artist not stated in the record · February 28, 1874

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 500–1520 CE
Grateloupia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1927

Division Viol
Richard Meares · ca. 1680

Island of Naos, from Perico, Bay of Panama
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

Upright Serpent in D
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–20

Perico and Flamenco - from Island of Naos, Panama
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

Cañon of Kanab Wash, Looking South
William H. Bell · 1872

Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Season of 1872
William H. Bell · 1872

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Imaginary Landscape with the Palatine Hill from Campo Vaccino
François Boucher · early 1730s

Writing table
Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1760–70

Serpent Forveille in B-flat
Forveille · ca. 1825
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. 36 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. 14914 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:35 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.