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. 21 shown for “Saint Mark” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Mark
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Saint Mark, seated on a Lion
Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · 1518

Saint Mark
Jean III Pénicaud · ca. 1550

Urera baccifera (L.) Gaudich. ex Wedd.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1957

Roundel with Saint Mark
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Design for Sculpture of the Winged Lion of Saint Mark
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

The Lion of Saint Mark (one of two appliqués from a book cover)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1225

Peromyscus gossypinus gossypinus
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1978

Miniature Relief of Saint Mark at His Writing Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1225

Protonotaria citrea
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1952

Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Peromyscus gossypinus gossypinus
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1978

Plaque from a Book Cover or Portable Altar with Saint Thomas and the Lion of Saint Mark
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 12th century

Sigmodon hispidus hispidus
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1978

The Ox of Saint Luke (one of two appliqués from a book cover)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1225

Sigmodon hispidus hispidus
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1978

Saint Mark
Charles Hoyau · ca. 1630

Sigmodon hispidus hispidus
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1978

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Saint Mark
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Saint Mark
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 1508 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 100039 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-28 01:22 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.