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. 13 shown for “Bursa Reliquary” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bursa Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Designs for Reliquaries
Artist not stated in the record · 1698

Sketched for a Reliquary
Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698 · 1698

Design for a Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Design for a Reliquary
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1810

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1812

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

Design for Reliquary
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620–30

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 797 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 11:06 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.