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, horseshoe on stand, large” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 19:17 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, horseshoe on stand, large
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

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

Table screen with landscape
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Wire frame, four leaf clover on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Wire frame, basket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Wire frame, half sphere on square with folding stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Wire frame, cross on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Wire frame, slanted cross on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Wire frame, cross & star center on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

Wire frame, cross on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

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

Ancient Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Wire frame, harp on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Wire frame, harp on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962
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. 361 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. 998242 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-09 19:17 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.