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. 24 shown for “Woodville, R. C.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Finches and bamboo
Emperor Huizong · early 12th century

Untitled (Men playing cards)
Woodville, R. C. · 1851

Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–745 BCE
Stigeoclonium lubricum
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1955

Sprite
Donatello · 1432
Stigeoclonium lubricum
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1955

Mexican News
Alfred Jones · 1851

Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1949

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1949

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1949

The Card Players
Charles Burt · 1851

Planodes virginicum (L.) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1983

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Draba brachycarpa (Nutt.) Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1983

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28
Zygnema cruciatum (Vaucher) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1948

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Tetraspora gelatinosa
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1948

Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair)
John Parker · 1766/67
Nitella tenuissima
Artist not stated in the record · May 1948

Double salt
R. P., London · 1620/21
Characium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1948
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. 13263 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1830590 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 03:17 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.