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. 24 shown for “Opening Page from a Kalila wa Dimna” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Opening Page from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Ocean
Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784 · 1773

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Letter from Secretary Gideon Welles to his son Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · March 5, 1865

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu
Various artists · 1666–80

Sale agreements for two enslaved persons and a house in colonial New Spain
Artist not stated in the record · April 1670

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Ja'far Baisunghuri · 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Festuca caprina Nees
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1914

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Ja'far Baisunghuri · dated 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Letter from Thomas Womack to Julia Womack with envelope
Artist not stated in the record · April 7, 1915

Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an"
Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri · 706 AH/1306–7 CE

Confederate flag-of-truce cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 30, 1864

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2
Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Post Office Act of 1792 publication
Artist not stated in the record · 1792

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 2 of 2
Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Pamphlet advertising a Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee march
Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, American · April 5, 1969

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Vuë de la Place du Château Impérial à Nuremburg (View of the Imperial Castle Square in Nuremburg)
Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801
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. 255 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. 2117674 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 06:13 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.