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 “Coin with Gemini Zodiac Sign” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coin with Gemini Zodiac Sign
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1027 AH/1618 CE

Le Printems
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

Ewer Base with Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · first half 13th century

Clock face with the signs of the zodiac
Louis-Félix de La Rue, French, 1731 - 1765 · 1785

Flask with Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century, with additions first half 20th century

Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Gémeaux (Gemini) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Coin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1031 AH/1621–22 CE

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Coin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

Coin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1030 AH/1621 CE

FLAMBEAUX A DEUX BRANCHES
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Coin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Thermometer
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

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

Apollo
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804

Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Design for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Coin with Sign of Cancer
Artist not stated in the record · 1032 AH?/1622–23 CE

Cover for "The World’s Almaniac for 1879"
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

Coin with Sign of Leo
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1033 AH/1624 CE

L’Eté
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75
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. 24 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. 567844 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 13:13 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.