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 “Daniel in the Lion's Den” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two-Sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Artist not stated in the record · 1200 or later

Daniel in the Lion's Den
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

Lions in a Mountainous Landscape
Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

Daniel in the Lion's Den
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Saint-Guilhem Cloister
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–65

Members, House of Assembly
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1798

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Lobby card for The Flying Ace
Boise De Legge, American · 1926

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Study of Oaks at Dennings Point
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · September 8, 1847

Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Poster for The Flying Ace
Artist not stated in the record · 1926

The Visit
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Revival Banner (Lions and Unicorn, Dan. and Rev.)
Unidentified · ca. 1930

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Title Page, Nouvelles Cheminée faittes en plusieur en droits (New Designs for Fireplaces)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Design for Footed Vase, in Vasses de la Maison Royalle de Loo Nouvellement (New Vases for the Royal House of Loo)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

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

George III sterling silver coffee pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Press kit for the film The Flying Ace
Artist not stated in the record · 1926
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. 315 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7483469 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 22:17 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.