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 “Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Festuca caprina Nees
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1914

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Strix Candida description
Artist not stated in the record · 1989

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Sceloglaux Albifacies plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1989

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Strix Candida plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1989

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Birds of Australia title page
Artist not stated in the record · 1989

"Kalila Visits the Imprisoned Dimna", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Birds of Australia list of plates
Artist not stated in the record · 1989

"Kalila Upbraiding Dimna", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Krishna and the Bow, folio 24 from the ‘Tula Ram’ Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

"The Monkey Tries Carpentry", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

A Moose Hunt
Bradlee Whidden · 1889

"The Lion and the Elephant Fighting", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis, folio from a Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1700

"The Flight of the Tortoise", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

The Facade of Modena Cath
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

"The Lioness Advises her Son", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

"The Dishonest Goldsmith is Hanged", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Sketchbook Page
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875
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. 492 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2074846 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 06:13 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.