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. 23 shown for “Relief of the foot of an ox- see 26.3.353-3” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:49 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 of the foot of an ox- see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)
Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

Relief of the foot of an ox - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BC

Relief of female attendants and oxen - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

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

Photographic print of a woman in an ox cart at McLeod's Amusement Park
Artist not stated in the record · 1926-1945

Relief fragment - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud
Unknown · 1780–1785

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793

Relief of an Acacia Tree Shading Water Jars with Drinking Cups
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Jar (One of a Pair)
Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Jar (One of a Pair)
Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Head of a Cow or Ox
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1871

Relief of feet of ox - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Vase
The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

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

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
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. 3461 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. 1418 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 15:49 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.