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. 19 shown for “S. I. Tobias” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tobias
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · early to mid-16th century

Solanum vestissimum Dunal
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Myrcia fallax (Rich.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

Pair-case watch
S. I. Tobias · 1824–25

Klaprothia mentzelioides Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

Double-chambered bottle
Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Solanum vestissimum Dunal
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Solanum felinum Bitter
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

Book cover for Pentateuch and Five Scrolls
Tobias Schier · silver: 1721–ca. 1727; book: 1699–1701 and 1700–1701

Solanum felinum Bitter
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Saurauia excelsa Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1958 to 14 Jan 1958

King Clothar I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

King Clovis I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Ritual Scene with Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE
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. 12929 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 975029 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:16 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.