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 “Wire frame, spray holders” — 49 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 15:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

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

Grand Pianoforte
Érard · ca. 1840

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

Harmoniphon
Paris, Lecrosnier & Tremblai · after 1836

Wire frame, casket piece holder
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

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

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Wire frame, casket cover piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Wire frame, casket cover piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Wire frame, victor's wreath
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Bouquet holder, wire and filigree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830-1920

Porcelain hatpin holder from Mae's Millinery Shop
Unidentified · 1941-1994

Black skullcap wtih rhinestones and feathers
Unidentified · 1960s

Embroidery sample
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26186 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 15:41 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.