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 Standing Yakshi” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:24 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 Standing Yakshi
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Chasse with Saints and Angels
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

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

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

Plaque
Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780 · ca. 1778

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

Button
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

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

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Ellis Gamble's Shop Card
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Plaque with Warrior and Attendants
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

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

Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun
Artist not stated in the record · 2005

Terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE

Design for a Memorial Window
John La Farge, American, 1835–1910 · 1880–1900

Icon with the Koimesis
Artist not stated in the record · late 900s

Bedroom in a Country Dacha
Unknown · 1839

Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Mantel clock
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775
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. 324 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. 257608 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 05:24 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.