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 showing part of a sun shade and a necklace - see 26.3.353-3” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:39 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 showing part of a sun shade and a necklace - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1868–69

Relief of part of a female attendant - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Rooftops at Sunset, Rome
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · November 1868–April 1869

Relief of a hand with part of necklace - see 26.3.353-3
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Clouds at Sea
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1860–1880

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th–early 20th century

Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Mountainous Landscape with a Figure, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 30, 1885

Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 9, 1866

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Sunset
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–75

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Icebergs in the Distance, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June–July 1859

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.

Sunset Sketch, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865

Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–1890

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Sunset at Sea, Ecuador, Part One
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1857
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. 302 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4053398 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 2026-08-28 06:39 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.