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 “Apostle Spoon” — 40 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Apostle Spoon with St. Michael Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

St. Christopher Apostle Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1661

Two Apostles
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1750

Apostles after Raphael's "Death of Ananias"
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

Three Apostles
Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609 · ca. 1540–1609

The Assumption of the Virgin
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles
Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

Group of Apostles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Scene from Acts of the Apostles, after Stradanus
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Apostles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1842

Apostles
Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 8352 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-26 19:56 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.