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 “Container with Figures under an Arcade” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Christ and the adulterous woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Container with Figures under an Arcade
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

Aduno Koro (Ark of the World) vessel with ancestral figures
Dogon blacksmith · 16th–19th century

Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

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

Stage Design: Stairway Leading to an Obelisk, a Triumphal Arch, and an Arcade
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1789

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Plate in Nouveaux Livre de Paysages (New Book of Landscapes)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

Poporo (lime container) with female figures
Quimbaya artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Study for a Procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470–80

Priest's Son, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1868

The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Study for a procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898
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. 4104 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 396133 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-05 10:11 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.