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 and the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 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 and the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–13th century

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

Reliquary Cross with Christ Crucified and the Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

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

Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Christ on the Cross with Mary and John
Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1485

Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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

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

A Saint's Vision of the Cross
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1800–20

Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1220

Veronica
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Cross
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1650

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

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello
Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · 1789–90

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Christ Falls Under the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Plaque from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Reliquary
Unidentified · 1700-1800

Enamel from a Reliquary
Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome
Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · ca. 1814–1819

Reliquary Shrine
Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1802
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. 1558 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. 1972093 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 13:27 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.