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 “Roundel Illustrating Episodes from the Biblical Story of Joseph” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Roundel Illustrating Episodes from the Biblical Story of Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners
Master of the Story of Joseph

Baptism of St. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Biagio d'Antonio

St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek
Hans of Landshut · 1498

Coverlet
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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. 389 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. 3132340 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 05:21 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.