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 “Ivory Plaque with the Crucifixion” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ivory Plaque with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000

Plaque
Unidentified · 1300-1400

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush
Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Plaque
Unidentified · 1300-1400

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Plaque
Unidentified · 1450-1500

Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Plaque
Smillies, active 15th century · 1400-1500

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Plaque
Unidentified · 1300-1400

Plaque with the Pentecost
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Plaque
Unidentified · 1500-1600

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Plaque
Unidentified · 1350-1400

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Plaque
Unidentified · 1300-1400

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Cabinet
Jean Brandely · 1867

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

Plaque with Censing Angels
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–80

Cabinet
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

"Dieppe"
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th 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. 652 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1304598 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 21:28 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.