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. 20 shown for “Mirror (Shinjūkyō) Based on Han Dynasty Prototype with Cosmological Design” — 53 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror (Shinjūkyō) Based on Han Dynasty Prototype with Cosmological Design
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Table Design with Vases
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Elevation of Salon Chimney Wall
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French, 1727 – 1793 · ca. 1780

Mirror with game board design and animals of the four directions
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Design for Wainscoting with a Mirror
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Tomb jar
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century
Mirror with game board design
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Wall with Mirror and Console Table
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

Mirror with board game design and mythical creatures
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Wall with Canapé and Mirror
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Hall stand
Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709 · ca. 1875

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Emperor Antoninus Pius
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · 1519–24

Inkwell with Zodiac Signs
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 1125045 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:59 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.