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 “Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · dated August 12, 1105

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Drawing
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)
Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Eagle Dance, Choctaw
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1837

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Sketchbook Page: Figures
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 11th century

Frieze with Playing Children
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Macuilcoatl
Mexica artist(s) · 1450–1521 CE

SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES.
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Design for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Village scene
Nayarit artist(s) · 300 BCE–300 CE

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants
Unknown, Italian · ca. 1785
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. 279 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 282474 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 04:39 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.