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 “Apostle plate with inscription of Saint Phillip” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 22:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Apostle plate with inscription of Saint Phillip
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Ornaments
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

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

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

2c John Phillip Sousa plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · March 28, 1940

Wall barometer-thermometer
Lange de Bourbon · ca. 1760

3c Augustus Saint-Gaudens plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · May 6, 1940

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

8c Washington by Charles B.J.F. Saint Memin plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · September 4, 1931

Saint Andrew
Andrea Bregno · 1491

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

Apostle Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

5c New Jersey Tercentenary plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · June 15, 1964

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

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

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

COLLECTION DE DESSINS Des Poëles de formes antique et modern, de l’invention et de la Manufacture du Sieur OLLIVIER, rue de la Roquette, fauxbourg Saint-Antoine.
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

The Last Judgment
Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658 · ca. 1650

Saint Peter as the First Pope
Artist not stated in the record · before 1348

A "Santa Conversazione"
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Reliquary Casket with the Deesis, Archangels, and the Twelve Apostles
Artist not stated in the record · 950–1000

Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761
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. 204 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. 2932172 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-30 22:53 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.