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 “Reliquary Cross with Christ Crucified and the Virgin and Child” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reliquary Cross with Christ Crucified and the Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century
![The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9276_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

Medieval Crucifix
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590–1599

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Calvario
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Virgin with Christ Child and Saint Jerome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

Crucified Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–80

Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: An Oval Plate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1641

Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Reliquary with the Emtombment
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

The Holy Family with John the Baptist
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1599

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

Reliquary Shrine
Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints
Antonio de' Dominici, Italian, ca. 1730–after 1800 · ca. 1759
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. 832 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. 1976040 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 13:31 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.