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. 20 shown for “Wentworth House” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wentworth House
Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1700

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1880

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

John Wentworth
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Soap Bubbles
Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1733–34

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Unidentified Artist · c. 1853

East Front of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
R. Blasson · 1790

Viola pensylvanica Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1958

Pair of candlesticks
Charles Petit · 1700–1701

Fraxinus americana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1955

Coffeepot
Sébastien Igonet · 1738–39

Writ of execution to collect damages issued by Wentworth Cheswill
Artist not stated in the record · 1810

Ewer and basin
Jean Fauche · 1739–42

Hon. John Wentworth, Mayor Elect of Chicago, from Harper's Weekly, March 17, 1860
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1860

Snuffbox
Charles Le Bastier · 1760–61

Viola rostrata Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1958

Fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Table
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740–45

Chamber candlestick
Arnaud Gautier · 1699–1700

Chamber candlestick
Jean-Baptiste Boullemer · 1732–33
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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 32765 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:49 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.