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. 14 shown for “Master Mason Stephen Lote” — 51 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tracery Arcade from the Great South Window of Canterbury Cathedral
Master Mason Stephen Lote · ca. 1426–1435

Masonic certificate signed by Arturo Schomburg
Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Prince Hall Affiliation, founded 1873 · March 5, 1919

Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Master of Monte Oliveto · ca. 1320

Masonic Invitation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Herber W. Hull Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Taddeo Gaddi · ca. 1340, updated ca. 1480

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1470

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

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

Madonna and Child
Luca di Tommè di Nuto · ca. 1360–65

Mold Fragment with Musicians
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati
Mirabello Cavalori · 1566
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 92055 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:41 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.