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 “Bronze relief of a Roman soldier and a barbarian” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Triumph of Caesar: The Corselet Bearers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Bronze relief of a Roman soldier and a barbarian
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 CE

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal
Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Scene of Roman Soldiers
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal
Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

A Roman Emperor Meeting a Soldier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

A Roman Soldier Fighting Hannibal's Elephant
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Stucco relief fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Plates 3, 4, and 5, Illustrations for "Roman Military Punishment" by John Beaver
Artist not stated in the record · 1725-1794

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd–early 3rd century CE

Inkstand for the Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais of Italy
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Martyrdom of St. Andrew
Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · 1825–50

Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Two Roman Soldiers in Conversation
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

The Broncho Buster
Frederic Remington · 1895, revised 1909, cast by November 1910

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon
William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866
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. 3227 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. 4047481 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 07:13 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.