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 “Brush Rest with Persian Inscription” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brush Rest with Persian Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Design for a crest with a coat of arms
Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti, Italian, active in France, 1791 - 1853 · 1829
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Caryatids and a Lion
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · ca. 1779–84

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

Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Design for Clock
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

The Gateway Character “Lotus”
Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki) · ca. 1663–64

Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post
Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930 · 1919

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post
Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930 · 1919

Dado Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post
Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930 · 20th century

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century

Devotional Picture: The Pentitent Magdalene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century
![Standing figure,Oyster Shells [above]; Elephants Helping Each Other Out of a Trap [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8012_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Standing figure,Oyster Shells [above]; Elephants Helping Each Other Out of a Trap [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon
Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

White-Robed Guanyin
Unidentified · late 14th century

Persian miniature: Standing woman
Unknown · 18th century
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. 90 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. 264826 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-28 11:02 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.