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. 13 shown for “Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair” — 41 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping
Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783
![Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8598_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Overdoor
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Allegorical Scene with Aurora
Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

Two Views of Judith and Holofernes
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

Lobby card for Imitation of Life
Artist not stated in the record · 1949

One of the Adams Children
Unidentified · ca. 1820
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2005310 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-04 03:11 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.