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 with Christ as Savior of the World” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:24 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 with Christ as Savior of the World
Artist not stated in the record · 1520–30

The Savior
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1900-1905

Roundel
Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Saint Joseph and the Infant Savior
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

Roundel
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC
Hawker Aircraft Ltd. · 1944

Roundel with Playing at Quintain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · April 5, 1945

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

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

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

Family register sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Westland Lysander IIIa
Westland Aircraft Limited · 1942

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Casilda Luna’s Crucifix
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony
Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Double Escape
Townsend, Harry · 1918
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. 478 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. 3026387 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-01 04:24 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.