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 “Bell with head of a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bell with head of a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Hand-colored albumen portrait of Princess Dagmar
Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1870

Bell with heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Mill by a Stream, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and October 1844

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers
Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Photographic postcard of Magdalene Hendricks and sister in Eastern Star regalia
Artist not stated in the record · early 1920s

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Rose pink shirt dress and belt designed by Arthur McGee
Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Cravat end
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1695

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Carte-de-visite portrait of M. J. Burleigh
Artist not stated in the record · 1868-1875

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Blue denim jacket
Faded Glory, American, founded 1972 · ca. 2000

Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Cattle branding iron used by the Bell family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

No. 166, Tidy Cart
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

Hacha head
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Pink and black floral tent dress
Chapter Two, American · 1970s-1980s

Ram-headed Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Bull Sketches, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868
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. 62 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. 7483533 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 10:43 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.