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. 21 shown for “Plaque with God Creating the Animals” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 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 with God Creating the Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 1084

The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Plaque with the Pentecost
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Basket with God’s Eye and Handle
Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

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

Egg Basket with God's Eye
Ira Blount · 2006

Ivory decorative plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 7th century BCE

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell
1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Cornerstone plaque from the Bank of Finance
Bank of Finance, American, 1964 - 1981 · 1964

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Plaque for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993

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

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

Casket with Erotes and Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Melon-Shaped Basket with God’s Eye
Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

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

NATIONAL-MILITARY-HOME-OHIO
Unidentified · ca. 1900

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Calligraphic Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 17th 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. 3018 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. 2411674 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:50 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.