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. 17 shown for “Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper” — 29 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 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 the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Léda
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli
Luigi Rossini, Italian, 1790 – 1857 · 1820–40

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

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

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Standing male worshiper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Lectern used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church
Artist not stated in the record · 1973

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

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

Scenes from the Life of Saint Andrew
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

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

Group statue with a Bes-image plucking a lyre
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Coffin of Khnumnakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 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. 675 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:44 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.