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 “Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:42 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 Statuette of Saint Christopher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Reliquary
Unidentified · 1500-1600

Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Reliquary
Unidentified · 1700-1800

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

Chasse with Saints and Angels
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe · 1489–93

Project for an Altar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Saint Christopher
Artist not stated in the record · 1511

Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus (Three Helper Saints)
Tilman Riemenschneider · ca. 1500–1505

Saint Christopher
Unidentified · 1600-1610

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Saint Christopher
Artist not stated in the record · 1503–1504

Standing Female Saint
Hans von Reutlingen · ca. 1510

Christopher Grant Champlin
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800
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Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Trichomanes elegans Rich.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1983

Shrine of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Project for a reliquary, intended to be executed in wood
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

A Silver Statuette of St. Christopher, from the Wittenberg Reliquaries
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Design for an Altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 47 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. 2885807 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:42 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.