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 “Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:26 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.

Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 14th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Scene from “Imperial Visit to Rokuhara,” from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion (Heiji monogatari)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta krater
Workshop of New York MMA 34.11.2 · ca. 775 BCE

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V
Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Biagio d'Antonio

The Rebellions of the Hōgen and Heiji Eras
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza
Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Sea monster
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · ca. 1500–1510

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465
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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 08:26 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.