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. 23 shown for “Dwarf Painter” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Dwarf Painter · ca. 440–430 BCE

Buxus microphylla var. microphylla 'Morris Dwarf'
Artist not stated in the record

Caricature of a Dwarf Painter at His Easel
Tuscany · early 17th century

Sinningia leucotricha 'Mandes Dwarf'
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Dec 1976

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
Niobid Painter · ca. 450 BCE

Nephrolepis 'Dwarf Boston'
Artist not stated in the record · 1916

Dwarf (one of a pair)
Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Heliconia stricta 'Dwarf Jamaican'
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1985

Heliconia stricta 'Dwarf Jamaican'
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1990

A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716

Heliconia psittacorum 'Dwarf Andromeda'
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1988

Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Prickly Wing Murex, Dwarf Triton, Dwarf Triton
Artist not stated in the record

An Old Man with a Dog
Giacomo Ceruti · 1740s

Untitled (man on horse with woman and dog)
Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · n.d.

Teapot with equestrian scene
Meissen Manufactory · 1722–23

Clarkia 'monarch dwarf mix'
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 2017

Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s

Magnolia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 2011

Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Prunus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 2011

Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Dwarf Mongoose
Artist not stated in the record · 2017:06:09
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. 36 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. 13956 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-27 13:50 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.