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 “Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saber
Artist not stated in the record · Grip and guard, second half of the 17th century; blade, late 18th–19th century

Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Detail of the Sculpture the Triumphant Return on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Detail of the Combat sculpture on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus
Artist not stated in the record · 251–253 CE

Detail of the Sculpture Peace on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

The Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Elevation of a Temporary Trumphal Arch
Charles-André Tramblin, French, active mid-18th century · ca. 1750

Wheellock Rifle
Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne, au Château de Versailles / Plan du premier étage de l’Escalier de la Reyne
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727–42

Rapier of Ambrogio Spinola (1569–1630) with Scabbard Chape
M. I. F. · ca. 1600

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

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

PROFIL de la Chapelle ou est la Sepulture de Monsieur de Montmorency à Molins en Bourbonnois
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Design for a Chapel Wall
Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

Medal cabinet
William Vile · 1760–61

Triumphal Arch Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Coupe du grand Escalier de l’Hôtel de Toulouse à Paris prise sur sa largeur et qui laisse voir l’entrée du Vestibule au rez de chaussée, et la Porte d’entrée du grand Appartement au premier étage
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1713–42
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. 804 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. 3523470 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 2026-09-06 06:37 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.