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. 23 shown for “Seated limestone kourotrophos with another child standing” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated limestone kourotrophos with another child standing
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Monument after Palladio with bust of Palladio and wolf with Romulus and Remus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580-1605

Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Study for Charity, Faith, and Hope
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1893–94

Ostracon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Project for an Altar Painting
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666 · 1700–50

Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–15

Virgin and child
Niccolò Roccatagliata · early 17th century

The Children's Bath
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · before 1500

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

The Reeling of Silk
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
![The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9276_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Meringues (Meringues) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Column
Maya artist(s) · 800–900 CE

La Bonne Mere
Artist not stated in the record · after 1755
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. 92 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. 291702 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 04:01 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.