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 “Golden Hood of Linz” — 56 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Golden Hood of Linz
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1923

Golden Hood of Linz
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1923

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1921

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1921

Horse and rider
Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza
Lorenzo Lotto · 1547

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2291 BCE

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

Cope
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1921

Gamepiece with a Dead Heron
Jan Weenix · 1695

Golden Ground Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1921
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 2862728 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 23:10 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.