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 “Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 19, 1868

Camel
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Desert Caravan, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

Miniature camelid effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Landscape with Figures and Donkeys, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1868

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Bedouin Campfire at Night
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868-1869

Camel and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to-late 6th century

Sketches of a Bedouin Campfire at Night, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Quatre Parties du monde
Joseph Gaspard Picart · ca. 1785

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

Sandy Plain and Mountain Range, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868
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. 1039 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7483886 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 05:17 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.