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. 12 shown for “F.S.C. (or G)” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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F.S.C. (or G) · 1750

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Landscapes after historical painters
Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650

Helmet (Spangenhelm)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Ewer of Zenobius
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Jagdhorn in G
Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Landscapes
Fan Qi · dated 1646

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660
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. 15537 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 983275 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 22:57 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.