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. 12 shown for “Ruth Ziegler, n.d.” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Saint Margaret of Antioch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Master Pertoldus · 1494

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

The Dentist (reverse copy)
Jan Muller · n.d.

Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket, detail (copy)
Lucas van Leyden · n.d.

Lamech and Cain (reverse copy)
Lucas van Leyden · n.d.

St. Mary Magdalene on the Clouds (reverse copy)
Lucas van Leyden · n.d.

The Proposal
William Bouguereau · 1872

Chalice with the Arms of Housteyn
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Landscapes in the styles of old masters
Wang Jian · dated 1668

Three Scenes from the Life of the Prophet Daniel
Jost Amman · 1564

Adoration of the Magi
Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft) · 1507
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. 141 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 20:12 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.