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. 14 shown for “Rice measure with four constellation deities” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rice measure with four constellation deities
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Part of a throne with deity on a bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

Flying Apsaras (Hiten)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th to early 12th century

Astronomical Ceiling
Charles K. Wilkinson · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Seated satyr with silvered eyes
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Asen (commemorative altar)
Fon artist · late 19th century–mid-20th century

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Seal casket with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Grouped pigment jars
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 300–800 CE
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 701592 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:00 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.