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 “Pilgrim's Badge with head of Saint Thomas à Becket” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:08 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.
Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–1400

Pilgrim's Badge with head of Saint Thomas à Becket
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40, with later grill

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Head of a Donor
Albert van Ouwater · ca. 1465–70

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

Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe · 1489–93

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175
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. 285 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:08 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.