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 “Ixtlán del Río artist(s)” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Female figure
Ixtlán del Río artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Melampodium microcephalum Less.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1990

Male figure
Ixtlán del Río artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Zinnia angustifolia Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1990

Ancestor Pair
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Cuphea leptopoda Hemsl.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/8/61

Kneeling female figure
Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE
Hilaria ciliata (Scribn.) Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1958

Seated male figure
Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Fimbristylis annua (All.) Roem. & Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1965

Lidded bowl with ballgame scenes
Río Blanco artist · 500-900 CE

Pittocaulon velatum (Greenm.) H. Rob. & Brettell
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1951

Funerary staff
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Melampodium divaricatum (Rich.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1960

Funerary staff
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Tillandsia schiedeana Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1951

Pair of Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE–200 CE

Sclerocarpus dentatus (La Llave) Benth. & Hook. f. ex Hemsl.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1960

Seated dog
Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Perymenium pringlei B.L. Rob. & Greenm.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1974

Standing male figure
Chimú artist(s) · 1300–1470 CE

Otopappus tequilanus (A. Gray) B.L. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1974

Crown
North Coast artist(s) · 800–1400 CE

Tridax procumbens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1960
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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1282050 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 02:36 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.