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 “Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Panels
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Panel with Harpies, Fish, and Trees
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Man's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

Panel with dragons amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century
Cream and red appliqued quilted bedcover
Unidentified · ca. 1850

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Black clutch purse with gold kiss lock frame
Unidentified · mid 20th century

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Bernard Johnson jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Bernard Johnson, American, 1936 - 1997 · 2000 - 2010

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

Black velvet belt with gold trim by Jay Smith
Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · 1980s

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Black velvet belt with gold metallic thread by Jay Smith
Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · 1980s

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Souvenir square
Artist not stated in the record · 1912

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Hinged wooden box owned by members of the Ellis family
Unidentified · 1875-1920

Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Design for Wall Panel on Theme of Diana
Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · ca. 1730
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. 610 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. 1644456 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 07:07 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.