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 “Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:39 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.

Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Morse Fragment with the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)
Mustafa ibn Vali · ca. 1595

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

Cameo with the Archangel Michael
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 14th century

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Medallion with Christ 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. 162 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 16:39 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.