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 “Man Carrying Ducks” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:59 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.

Man Carrying Ducks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Relief showing procession of offering bearers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin
Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921; original ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder
Barthélemy Prieur · late 16th–early 17th century

Relief of offering bearers carrying boxes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Relief with man carrying papyrus bundle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas
Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Man carrying a tray of loaves
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Man carrying a bag
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller
Jacob Duck · ca. 1632–33

Christ Carrying the Cross
Martin Schongauer · ca. 1475–80
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. 611 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 07:59 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.