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. 12 shown for “Jar for Eye Paint (kohl) with Attached Stand” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Jar for Eye Paint (kohl) with Attached Stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1775 B.C.

Jar for Eye Paint (kohl) with Attached Stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1749 B.C.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Jar for Eye Paint (kohl)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

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

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

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Christ Healing the Blind
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow
Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
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. 85 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:36 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.