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. 12 shown for “Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut” — 24 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Heart Scarab of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Virgin and Child with Angels
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1518

Book of the Dead Papyrus with Chapters 100 and 129
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

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

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

The Mater Dolorosa
Lautenbach Master · ca. 1480
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. 170 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:02 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.