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 “Game Piece with Zodiac Sign of Cancer or Scorpio” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Game Piece with Zodiac Sign of Cancer or Scorpio
Artist not stated in the record · mid-12th century

L’Automne
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

Inkwell with Zodiac Signs
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

L’Eté
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Thermometer
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

Flask with Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century, with additions first half 20th century

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Game of Hounds and Jackals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Scorpion (Scorpio) from le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Suwaru-l-kawakib (Description of the Fixed Stars) by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (incomplete)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

Coin with Sign of Cancer
Artist not stated in the record · 1032 AH?/1622–23 CE

Clock face with the signs of the zodiac
Louis-Félix de La Rue, French, 1731 - 1765 · 1785

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)
Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)
Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

Basin with Zodiac Signs and Royal Titles
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)
Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

Tray
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824
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. 76 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. 2922422 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-28 22:44 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.