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. 14 shown for “Window Sash” — 59 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Window Sash
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Winfield Scott and staff
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Sash
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

George McClellan and Family
Tholey Lithography Company, active c. 1851 - 1898 · 1867
![[Young Man Painting Window Sash], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP700328.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Young Man Painting Window Sash]
Unknown · 1860s–80s
![[Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-32823-035.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window]
Unknown · late 1850s–60s

A Woman Standing at an Open Sash Window, a Small Boy Beside Her
Anthonie Andriessen · 1761–1813

Spring
Daniel Cottier · ca. 1873–85

Prince Holding a Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1820

Drawing the Eel
Salomon van Ruysdael · early 1650s

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

The Courtesan Nishikigi of the Yotsumeya Brothel, from the series “A Pattern Book of the Year’s First Designs, Fresh as Spring Herbs” (“Hinagata wakana hatsu moyō”)
Isoda Koryūsai · 1776

Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard (1874–1956)
Auguste Renoir · 1879
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 7865 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:04 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.