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 “Cross with Apostles” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cross with Apostles
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Martyrdom of St. Andrew
Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · 1825–50

Cross
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul
Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802 · 1770–80

Cross
George Laskaris (Giorgios Laskaris) · 1550–1600

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles
Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1661

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

Two Apostles
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1750

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Saint Philip and Saint James Major
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

Landscape with Stars
Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) · ca. 1905–1908

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th-early 18th century

Six Apostles from Retable
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Three Apostles
Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609 · ca. 1540–1609

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)
Northern Highlands artist · 15th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1715
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. 4717 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. 265275 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-28 21:48 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.