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. 23 shown for “Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century (before 1227)

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · before 1227

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Designs for a Niche with Religious Attributes
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Medallion
Unidentified · 1800-1900

Pendant Medallion with Michael Slaying the Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–80

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th century

Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

Saint George and the Dragon
Hans Klocker · ca. 1475

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1757

Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Knife
Baiiof · ca. 1672

Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100
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. 168 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. 1494704 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 11:31 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.