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. 15 shown for “Scarab Commemorating the Construction of an Artificial Lake” — 52 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab Commemorating the Construction of an Artificial Lake
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Trillium camschatcense Ker Gawl.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1952

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Ranunculus testiculatus Crantz
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 2011

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Cyperus echinatus (L.) Alph. Wood
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1955

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Miniature camelid effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan
Wang Jun · dated 1883

Tupu (pin)
Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1533 CE

Relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 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. 12 matched · 12 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. 3092540 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 13:27 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.