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 “Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Baptism of St. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple (Jin’ōji engi emaki)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome
Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47
Snow scene at Gongen Temple of Nezu
Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883 – 1957 · ca. 1920

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–95

"Achille reconnu par Ulysse"
Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1810

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

(Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · 1849

Virgin and Child
Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · 1849

Bottle illustrating Meritptah honoring Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Ichabod Crane from Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · 1849

Four miniatures of the life of Christ from a gospel book of 1311 (Presentation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Entry into Jerusalem)
T'oros the Deacon · 1311

Sketches for Scenes Four and Five of Cartoon for Cotton Printing: L'Histoire de Henri IV
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)
An Gyeon · ca. 1450–1500

Legend of Sleepy Hollow illustration
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr · delete
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. 245 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. 3093467 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 00:13 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.