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. 17 shown for “Plastron (Collar) from a Tunic” — 54 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plastron (Collar) from a Tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?
Unidentified · mid-to late 20th century

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski
Lepenski, died 1985 · 1981-1985

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

World War I enlisted man's olive drab tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1918

Portrait of a Man with His Hand on His Chest
Attributed to Corneille de Lyon · 1540–45

Photographic portrait of Lt. Charles J. Blackwood
Duce & McClymonds, American, Twentieth century · 1914-1918

"Alexander is Lowered into the Sea", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Photograph of Dr. William H. Conner and family outside their home
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Four-Cornered Hat
Artist not stated in the record · 500–900 CE

Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Stirrup-spout bottle with peanut figure
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Four-Cornered Hat
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Young Man in Portuguese Dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-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. 14 matched · 14 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. 1953770 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:18 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.