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 “Archer's Shield (Pavise)” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500
Jatropha curcas L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1934

Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75
Jatropha curcas 'Brocade'
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1934

Infantry Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450
Serjania paucidentata DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1934 to 17 Dec 1934

Archer's Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Passiflora coccinea Aubl.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1934

Archer's Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Euphorbia heterophylla L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1934 or 12 Nov 1934

Archer's Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Paullinia pinnata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1934

Archer's Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–75
Paullinia pinnata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1934

Standing Shield
Artist not stated in the record · probably early 14th century
Phyllanthus caribaeus Urb.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1934 to 22 Jul 1934

Standing Shield
Artist not stated in the record · 1385–87
Paullinia pinnata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Dec 1934

Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–1500
Passiflora glandulosa Cav.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1934

Terracotta Nolan amphora (jar)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–470 BCE
Serjania membranacea Splitg.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1934

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Painter of Vatican G.49 · late 6th–early 5th century BCE
Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.) Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1934
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. 37 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. 134541 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 05:18 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.