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 “Cabinet with scenes from the Life of Joseph” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cabinet
Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Cabinet card of Frederick Douglass with his grandson Joseph Douglass
Artist not stated in the record · May 10, 1894

Cabinet with scenes from the Life of Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century

L’ÉCOLE DES FILLES
François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

cabinet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Title Page
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

Medal cabinet
William Vile · 1760–61

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Cabinet card of Chaplain Allen Allensworth
Artist not stated in the record · January 15, 1889

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Niche with a Buffet
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490

Emery Chamberlain's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Certificate by Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company · ca 1867

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc
Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Vue des trumeaux du même Cabinet; Vue des trumeaux du même Cabinet, 3rd Plate
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1742–48

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

An Attack upon China
Hickman, Nathaniel · n.d.
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. 3441 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. 3135500 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-05 03:37 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.