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. 12 shown for “Raised relief fragment of a man bringing a leashed animal” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Raised relief fragment of a man bringing a leashed animal
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Fragment with the head of a man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1650 B.C.

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
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. 98 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:22 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.