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 “Werkspoor N.V., Dutch” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.s1s2.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Pair of Wheellock Pistols
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1655–65

Transorma Mail Sorting Machine sign
Werkspoor N.V., Dutch · 1957

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1920

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662
Cephalanthus salicifolius Bonpl.
Artist not stated in the record

Caddy spoon
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Lathyrus sativus L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/8/41

Flagon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terminalia blancoi Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /5/21

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1792

Maesa denticulata Mez
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /4/6

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Stipagrostis acutiflora (Trin. & Rupr.) De Winter
Artist not stated in the record

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 1898
Artist not stated in the record · 1898
Leersia hexandra Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1911

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Oryza meyeriana (Zoll. & Mor.) Baill.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1918
s1s2.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Pair of Wheellock Pistols
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–70
Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1951

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Carex chordorrhiza L. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1915

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Sphagnum rubellum Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1934
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. 183 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. 4239 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 03:46 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.