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 “Child's Shirt” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 01:19 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.

Child's Shirt
Artist not stated in the record · 650–400 BCE

Child's Shirt
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

House Altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Terracotta statuette of a boy
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci

Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciatory Angel (left wing); Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Evangelist and (above) the Virgin Annunciate (right wing)
Paolo di Giovanni Fei · ca. 1400–1410

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation
Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1390s

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 5 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 2026-08-31 01:19 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.