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. 24 shown for “W. T. Copeland and Sons” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bowl
W. T. Copeland and Sons · 1870–1900

Plate
W. T. Copeland & Sons, English, 1847 – 1970 · ca. 1875–85

Pier table
Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Joseph T. Copeland
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Madonna and Child
Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Letter to John Copeland from his wife Ann
Artist not stated in the record · February 18, 1861

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Joseph T. Copeland
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Joseph T. Copeland
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

Ambrotype of John H. Copeland in an embossed leather case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Galium bolanderi A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1903

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1904

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Dennstaedtia scabra (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1905

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1904

Christ Healing the Blind
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1938
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. 593 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2512661 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-05 00:11 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.