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 “Crouching child god holding scepter” — 52 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crouching child god holding scepter
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

The Virgin with the Crown of Stars
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1516

Scarab Inscribed for the Perfect God Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Madonna and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1535

Khonsu
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1647–50

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790-1800

Inner Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Char de Bacchus.
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

The Holy Family with Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495

Segment of a Crozier Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Section from a Frieze with a Seated Buddha and Attendants
Artist not stated in the record · Modern

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–1700

The Annunciation
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Design, a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty
Master of the Acts of Mercy

Allegorical Figure of "Asia"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Europe
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
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. 12 matched · 12 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. 57522 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.