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. 14 shown for “Painter of Munich 237” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Painter of Munich 237 · ca. 590–570 BCE

Walter Shirlaw
Frank Duveneck, born Covington, KY 1848-died Cincinnati, OH 1919 · ca. 1873

Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"
Ignaz Günther · ca. 1755

The Dressing Room of King Ludwig I at the Munich Residence Palace
Franz Xaver Nachtmann, German, 1799 - 1846 · 1836

Snuffbox
Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1770

Commode
Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Painter of Munich 1842 · ca. 550 BCE

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome
Master of the Munich Bavarian Panels · ca. 1450

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Painter of Munich 833 · ca. 530–525 BCE

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Painter of Munich 2335 · ca. 440 BCE

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Painter of Munich 2335 · ca. 430 BCE

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)
Painter of Munich 2363 · ca. 440–430 BCE

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Painter of Munich 2335 · ca. 440 BCE
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. 1085 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2862961 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:34 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.