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 “Bronze handle with dogs flanking a reclining youth” — 13 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:05 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.

Bronze handle with dogs flanking a reclining youth
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Bronze handle of a hydria (water jar)
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)
Naples Painter · ca. 420 BCE

The Disillusioned Medea
Paulus Bor · ca. 1640

Design for the Tomb of a Youth
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1524–25

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation
Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480
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. 13 matched · 13 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 2026-08-27 19:05 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.