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 the Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:47 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 the Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160–80

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

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

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

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

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Second Scene
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

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

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

Saint Andrew
Andrea Bregno · 1491

The Sudarium (Saints Veronica, Peter, and Paul), from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

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

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Stone slave auction block from Hagerstown, Maryland
Unidentified · early 19th century

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Saints Peter and Paul over the Vatican
Minardi Tommaso, Italian, 1787 - 1871 · 1800–1850

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

Old Man Weeping, after a drawing by Guercino
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1780

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

Portrait of S. Francesco Xavier (1506-1552)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Saint Andrew
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Teramnus uncinatus (L.) Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1966

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1870
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. 5110 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3261032 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-02 20:47 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.