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 “Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:11 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.
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Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Arm Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia (1779–1831)
Tula Arms Factory · ca. 1801

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Bronze statuette of a horse
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger
Aelbert Bouts · ca. 1500

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Crucifix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals · early 1650s
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. 56 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:11 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.