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. 23 shown for “Capital with a Centaur Battling a Man with Bow and Arrow” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Capital with a Centaur Battling a Man with Bow and Arrow
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Design for a Salt Cellar in the Shape of a Sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1690

Armored Cavalryman
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Sea Centaur Battles Sea Monster
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

Arch with Beasts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

America
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · ca. 1750

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Design for a painted ceiling
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1810

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Playing at Soldiers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Hercules Fighting the Centaurs
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

The Emperor Commodus Killing a Leopard
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Dejanira being abducted by the centaur Nessos, a man with bow and arrow at right, after Reni
A. Lovison · 1800–1840

Lion Hunt
Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

Cassone (chest), pair with 1975.1.1947
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century (with 19th century additions)

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Cassone (chest), pair with 1975.1.1940
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century (with 19th-century additions)

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 129 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. 2841213 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 07:12 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.