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 “Bes carrying a ram over his shoulders” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:15 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.

Bes carrying a ram over his shoulders
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Pendant: Ajax carrying the body of Achilles
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Aquamanile in the Form of a Ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250–1350

Effigy urn
Zapotec (Be'ena'a) artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Man Carrying Ducks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross
Hans Schäufelein · ca. 1510

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Guitar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Panel with the Angel Appearing to Zacharias (from a Retable depicting Saint John the Baptist and scenes from his life)
Domingo Ram · 1464–1507

Stirrup-spout bottle with figure carrying deer
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17
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. 632 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. 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 05:15 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.