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. 23 shown for “Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Plaque with ox head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-221 BCE

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–450 CE

Sketches from Narragansett, Rhode Island
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1871

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 17th century

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Bracket
Artist not stated in the record · 1755–60

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Plate 32, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Vase Design
Charles Dupuis, French, active 1760 – 1791 · ca. 1763

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of a Bound Ox
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Leather Glove
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)
Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Flyer advertising a protest against slaughter in Rhodesia
Youth Against War & Fascism, American, founded 1961 · January 29, 1972

Foundation Deposit Plaque in the Form of an Ox Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1207–1200 BCE

Design for a Garden
Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870 · 1856

Plaque from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century
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. 699 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. 7483691 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 11:15 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.