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 “Relief fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 18:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Relief fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

"Full of the D"
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · copyrighted 1888

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

An Adoring Angel
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

Studies probably for an Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

The Adoration of the Magi
Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

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

Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast
![Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8597_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597

Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Thetis observing Vulcan fabricating the arms of Achilles
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1800
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. 372 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. 7484735 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-05 18:12 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.