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. 22 shown for “Motacilla alba alba” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor of the Dukes of Alba
Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1575–85
Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1938

Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo)
Luigi Crosio · 1870–71
Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1911

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810
Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1919

Goa Stone and Gold Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Serving knife (Présentoir)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1930

The Last Supper
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1525–28
Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · May 1877

Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct ----

The Crucifixion
Bernard van Orley · design ca. 1515, woven ca. 1525

Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 1910

The Man of Sorrows
Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono) · ca. 1430

Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record

Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1805

Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

Stirrup-spout bottle with owl
Moche artist(s) · 200–500 CE

Motacilla alba alba
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1888

Model Lotus Flower
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.
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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 11652 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:35 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.