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 “Badge of the Order of Saint Catherine” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Badge of the Order of Saint Catherine
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)
Johan Adolph Grecke · 1786

Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Cristoforo Solari · probably 1514–24

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

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

Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order
Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio · 1459

Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Jan Crocq · ca. 1475–1525
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. 1262 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:08 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.