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 “Manuscript Leaf with Initial L, from an Antiphonary” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Manuscript Leaf with Initial L, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Manuscript Leaf with Initial L, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

Manuscript Leaf with Initial L, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Coupe du grand Escalier de l’Hôtel de Toulouse à Paris, prise sur sa plus grande longueur, du Vestibule qui le precede, et de l’Antichambre à la quelle cet Escalier conduit au premier Etage
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1713–42

Manuscript Leaf with Initial L, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Design for an Andiron
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Title Page
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1716

Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T, from a Gradual
Mariano del Buono · second half 15th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

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

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

"Title Plate," Plate 1 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"
Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

Bifolium with Initial L, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century (?)

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion, from a Missal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1270–80

Alternative Designs for a Metal Gate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Manuscript Leaf with the Nativity in an Initial H, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Samples from Malmaison
Augustin François André Picot, French · 1804
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. 393 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. 1841909 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-06 21:00 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.