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. 12 shown for “Photograph of mail collection three-wheeled motorcycle” — 24 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 21:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Armor of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half of the 19th century

Shirt of Mail and Plate of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Qaitbay (ca. 1416/18–1496), 18th Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1468–96

Cuirass (Char-aina) with Mail Shirt
Artist not stated in the record · cuirass, 17th–early 18th century; mail shirt, 18th–19th century

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Picquigny
Frits Thaulow · 1899

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Portions of a Jousting Half Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500 and later

Armored Cavalryman
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot
Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
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. 72 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 21:52 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.