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. 14 shown for “Baboon holding an inscribed stela dedicated to Iretherukhef” — 42 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Baboon holding an inscribed stela dedicated to Iretherukhef
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Plan d’un Petit Batiment projete pour un des Bosquets du jardin de Nymphenbourg
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1771

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Frontispiece of Soliman, Second State
Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635 · 1620

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

The Genius of the Painter
Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1645–47

The Genius of Castiglione
Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1648

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

Title Page
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590

Vase (Plate 12 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright
R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957

Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

Design for an Oil Lamp.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 955806 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 16:44 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.