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 “War Mask” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
War Mask
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

General Winfield Scott
Artist not stated in the record · 1852

War Mask
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–16th century

Small box respirator
Unidentified · 1917-1918

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Mask and ring handle
Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

Armor (Gusoku)
Yukinoshita Sadaiyé · 17th century

3d Bn. 366 Inf. - 92nd Div. at Gas Mask drill - Ainvelle, Vosges, France - Aug 8, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

Mask (Sōmen) Representing a Tengu
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

On the Gas Alert
Townsend, Harry · 1918

Mask in the Shape of a Mountain Demon's Face
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

FLAMBEAUX
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Pair of two-light wall brackets
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

George Washington life mask
Unidentified Artist · c. 1830

"Big Nims" - 366 Inf. Ainvelle, Vosges, France, Aug 8, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

Elévation et Profil d'une Commode enrichie de Marqueterie
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Elévation et Profil d'une Commode enrichie de Marqueterie
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Wand with a dragon head
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 475-221 BCE

LA GUERRE
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80
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. 89 matched · 24 examined · 17 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. 34961 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:20 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.