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 “Mary” — 24 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:25 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.

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Mary
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–mid-19th century

Mary
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints above Predella Panels
Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Stela of King Raneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2880 BCE

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Winged Goddess, probably Nut or Isis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Embroidered Picture
Mary Wright · ca. 1754

Holy-water stoup with relief of Mary of Egypt
Giovanni Giardini · ca. 1702

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515
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. 19362 matched · 24 examined · 7 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 2026-09-10 12:25 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.