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 “Indra, Lord of the Gods: Regent of the East” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Indra, Lord of the Gods: Regent of the East
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1833

Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1080 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1717

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th century

Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 908–932 AD

Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Family register sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1832

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Deed of sale including 237 enslaved persons in transaction
Artist not stated in the record · August 20, 1798

Standing Indra
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

Coffin of Khnumnakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1764

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Indra Swallowtail
Artist not stated in the record · 2005

The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Indra Swallowtail
Artist not stated in the record · 1996
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. 1031 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. 3029028 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 12:30 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.