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. 19 shown for “Votive Plaque with White Taras” — 47 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Votive Plaque with White Taras
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Scenic Plaque
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1913

Votive Plaque with White Taras
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10

Votive Plaque with White Taras
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Rookwood
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1903–13

Votive Plaque with White Taras
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725

Votive Plaques with White Taras
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Framed plaque
John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1780

Votive Plaque with White Tara
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–19th century

Basketball signed by Lusia Harris with wood base
Artist not stated in the record · 1996

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Plaque
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 19th century

Button
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell
1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

Plaque
Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780 · ca. 1778

Sign from segregated railroad station
Unidentified · ca. 1930s
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 322473 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 2026-08-28 06:11 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.