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 “Book Cover with Four Durgas” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:33 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.

Book Cover with Four Durgas
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Four Gospels in Armenian
Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35

Bibliorum Sacrorum Vulgatae versionis
François Ambroise Didot · 1785

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Book Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Symbols of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Book of Prayers, Surat al-Yasin and Surat al-Fath
Ahmad Nairizi · dated 1132 AH/1719–20 CE

Book Cover with Crucifixion Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Bible and Book of Common Prayer
Robert Barker · ca. 1607
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. 363 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 06:33 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.