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. 15 shown for “Priests before Shri Nathji” — 43 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Priests before Shri Nathji
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Worship of Shri Nathji
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Krishna in the Form of Shri Nathji
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1675

Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 332–200 BCE

On Your Knees and Swear It
Albert Lynch, French, 1851 - after 1900 · 1894

Christ before Caiphas
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

Last Unction
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

The Story of Telemachus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

A Priest (Kōbō Daishi) practicing the Tantra, a demon before him, and a wolf behind
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1868

Muzeo Scevola before Porsenna
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

Design for a Doorway to the Sacristy of St. Peter's, Rome
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1778

The House that Jack Built
Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · 1886

The Exposition of the Holy Sacrament, Attended by Louis XIV and His Mother, Anne of Austria
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1650

Ceiling of Cabinet dedicated to Peace, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14855 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 20:39 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.