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 “Casket with Painted Roundels” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Casket with Painted Roundels
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Casket with hinged lid
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

Roundel with Playing at Quintain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500
![tray, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-A5B1CB12ADF52_02.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
tray
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1757–1765

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)
Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony
Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Two Alternative Designs for Altars
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · 1690

Roundel with a Winged Female Deity
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

The New and the Old Dispensations
Artist not stated in the record · 1538

Obelisk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–25

Casket Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

"Peintures decoratives du theatre du Franconi dans le grand carre des champs elysees 1833"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

Sorgheloos ("Carefree") in Poverty
Artist not stated in the record · 1510–20

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome
Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Plate in Nouveaux livres de peintures de salles et d’escaliers (New Books on Paintings for Rooms and Stairs)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

Quatrefoil Roundel with Arms and Secular Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 1490–1500

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. 383 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. 287109 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 19:35 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.