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 “Anonymous, Italian, Tuscan, early 15th century” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two Monks Looking up at a Dragon in a Tower
Anonymous, Italian, Tuscan, early 15th century · 1500–1550

Mourning sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Saint Michael and the Dragon
Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Decorative Study; Verso: Anatomical Study
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother
Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Head of a Young Woman
Unidentified (Italian) · 15th century

Two-Handled Jar
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini
Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494(?)

Whiling Away the Summer in the Shade of Pines 《松陰消夏圖》
Zhe School 浙派 · 15th century

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini
Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494?

Sofa
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795–1805

Wellhead
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Stage Design: Walled Courtyard with View of a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · 1699–1700

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1840

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid- to late 15th century

The Old Italian Woman
Edgar Degas · 1857

Adoring Angel
Giovanni della Robbia, Italian, born Florence, Italy 1469-died Florence, Italy 1529/30 · 15th-16th century

Triton
Giambologna · 1590s

Adoring Angel
Giovanni della Robbia, Italian, born Florence, Italy 1469-died Florence, Italy 1529/30 · 15th-16th 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. 1790 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 65441 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-31 02:10 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.