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. 23 shown for “Wire frame, broken column, small” — 55 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Wire frame, broken column, small
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Wire frame, broken column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Wire frame, broken column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

The Penitent Magdalen
Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1750

Wire frame, broken column, large
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Wire frame, broken column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Wire frame, broken column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Wire frame, broken column base
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Miniature longcase clock with calendar
Daniel Quare · ca. 1720–25

Wire frame, broken wheel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Bird Staff Head
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Wire frame, broken wheel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

The Annunciation
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Wire frame, lyre, small
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Wire frame, lyre, small
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Upright Piano
Friedrich Bernhard Voigt · 1832

Drawing
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620-1630
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 108434 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 05:39 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.