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 frames, crown” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:26 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 frames, crown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

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

Elderly king
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

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

Crown
North Coast artist(s) · 800–1400 CE

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

King
Nicola Ingaldi · second half 18th century

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

Moorish king
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

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

Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther
Artist not stated in the record · after 1665

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

Viscount Admiral Lord Nelson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

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

Black king
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

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

Rapier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

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

Rapier with Scabbard
Juan Martinez · ca. 1580

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

Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Wire frame, cross on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
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. 765 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 26433 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 12:26 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.