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 heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 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 heads of a ram, a jackal, and 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 head of a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Three capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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

Six capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1780–1800

Ram's-head Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Illustration for the Poem ‘Hymn to Adversity’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

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

Project for a candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

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

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

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

Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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

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

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

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

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

Design for a Console Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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

Blue denim jacket
Faded Glory, American, founded 1972 · ca. 2000
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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7483885 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 08:09 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.