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 “Saturn, from The Seven Planets” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saturn, from "The Seven Planets"
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Saturn, from The Seven Planets
Artist not stated in the record · 1539

Saturn holding an Infant and a Scythe, from "The Seven Planets"
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

The Moon, from The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

The Sun, from The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Mars, from The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

Saturn, from "The Planets"
Jacob Matham · 1597

Jupiter, from The Seven Planets
Artist not stated in the record · 1539

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Venus, from The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Throne of Saturn
Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923 · 1883-1884

Venus, from The Seven Planets
Georg Pencz

Title Page, The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

Mars, from The Seven Planets
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Mercury, from The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"
Master I.B. · 1525

Space is the Place
North American Star System Production, American · 1974

Jupiter, from "The Seven Planets"
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1533

Poster for the film Space is the Place
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1974

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Spacecraft, Mariner 10, Flight Spare
Boeing Aerospace Company
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. 46 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. 1357608 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 23:27 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.