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. 16 shown for “William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 07:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Jumpsuit worn by Diahann Carroll on the television show Julia
William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990 · 1968-1971

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")
Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Dress worn by Diahann Carroll on the television show Julia
William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990 · 1968-1971

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

World War II Patriotic cover
Harry Ioor · November 23, 1944

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Note from the Roger Williams University Quartette
Unidentified · 1920

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

The Attarouthi Treasure - Wine Strainer
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650
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. 250 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1840352 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 07:03 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.