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 “Project for a Reliquary” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Project for a Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Project for a reliquary shrine, with alternative suggestions, intended to be executed in stone
Artist not stated in the record · Early 18th century

Reliquary Shrine
Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40, with later grill

Design for a Reliquary for a Thorn of the Crown
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Plaque from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Designs for Reliquaries
Artist not stated in the record · 1698

Enamel from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Sketched for a Reliquary
Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698 · 1698

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Design for a Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Reliquary figure
Mbete-Kota artist · 19th century

Design for a Reliquary
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1810

Arm Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1812

Reliquary vitrine
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802

Plaque from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Project for an Altar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575
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. 2745 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2502601 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-28 13:20 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.