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. 17 shown for “Four Gospels in Armenian” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Four Gospels in Armenian
Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35

The Armenian Bridge, Near St. Thomas's Mount, Madras, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem)
T'oros the Deacon · 1311

Armenian Girl of Pera
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

Armenian Manuscript Bifolium
Illuminator Minas (?) · 15th century

Sophi, an Armenian of Brusa
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1845

Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Armenian Girl of Constantinople
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1845

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist
Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

Armenian Pilgrim/Turk Pilgrim
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1290–1330

Chasse of Champagnat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1100

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century
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. 133 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7460942 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:53 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.