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. 15 shown for “WestPoint Home Inc., American, founded 1880” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fruit
Julian Alden Weir · ca. 1888

Ivory double bed sheet
WestPoint Home Inc., American, founded 1880 · late 20th Century

Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900

Interworld Marketing Inc. badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · after 1970

Armchair
Herter Brothers · ca. 1880

Metal bottle opener carried by Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Idle Hours
Julian Alden Weir · 1888

Hortensia
Fernand Khnopff · 1884

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Vase (Old World)
Joseph S. Potter · ca. 1886–89

Vase (New World)
Joseph S. Potter · ca. 1886–89

Adam
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

Floral Applique Quilt
Emeline Travis Ludington · ca. 1850

Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 340–320 BCE

Sunrise
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47
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. 121 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1274444 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 23:41 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.