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. 12 shown for “Workshop of the Ybarzabel family” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a Las Tres Modas
Workshop of the Ybarzabel family · late 18th century

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Tenor Recorder
Bassano · ca. 1600

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Shawl
Emile-Frédéric Hébert · ca. 1860

Snuffbox
Miotti Family Workshop · 18th century

Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses
Patanazzi family · 1584

Couch
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Wine cooler with A Pageant Battle with Elephants
Fontana family · ca. 1562–75

The Creation of Adam (one of a set of four)
Muller · mid-17th century
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. 754 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. 2984596 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 05:47 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.