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 “Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:26 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.

Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1290–1330

Four Gospels in Armenian
Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35

Chasse of Champagnat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

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

Double-Sided Gospel Leaf
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1100

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist
Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th 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. 609 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 2026-08-26 23:26 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.