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. 20 shown for “Prophet from a Jesse Tree” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Prophet from a Jesse Tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1838

Prophet from a Jesse Tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245

Salome
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1900

Prophet King from a Tree of Jesse Window
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70

An Evil Tree or the Natural Heart
unknown · n.d.

Tree of Jesse Window: The Reclining Jesse, King David, and Scenes from the Life of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 1280–1300

Design for a Sculpture of a Prophet or Evangelist
Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804 · 1780–1800

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Design for a Sculpture of a Prophet Beside an Arch
Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804 · 1780–1800

Lamp or Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Jesse S. Wooley
Jesse Sumner Wooley, 1867 - 1940 · c. 1900

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)
Mustafa ibn Vali · ca. 1595

Ten-sqúat-a-way, The Open Door, Known as The Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830

Stained Glass Panel with the Deposition
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Pinback button for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign
Artist not stated in the record · 1988

Prophet holding a Banderole, from a Tree of Jesse Window
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

The Prophet Ezechiel, from a Tree of Jesse Window
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation
Artist not stated in the record · 1444
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. 63 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. 1976818 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:51 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.