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. 24 shown for “Plaque with Scenes from the Story of Joshua” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:13 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 Scenes from the Story of Joshua
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

From a frieze called "The Pines"
Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951 · ca. 1902

Casket Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea
Artist not stated in the record · 1561

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

L’ASTRONOMIE / LA GÉOGRAPHIE
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Plaque
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1878–82

Design for a painted ceiling
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1810

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Title Page
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

Panel from an Ivory Casket with Scenes of the Story of Joshua
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Scenic Plaque
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1913

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

Belisarius
Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832 · 1821

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Street Scene in Popayan, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 9, 1853

Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Textile
F. Pieters · 1810–20

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790s
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. 1011 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. 3094647 matched · 40 examined · 11 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:13 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.