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 “Shepherd's crook or staff” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shepherd's crook or staff
Artist not stated in the record

La Pastorale
Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Knob from a Crozier with the Entry into Jerusalem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Bronze shepherd's crook
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1050 BCE

ATTRIBUTS PASTORALS
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1772–77

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Trophy Design
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1772

Crozier with Lamb of God
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1360–1400

Bed hanging
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

St. Joseph
Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

Stucco relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE

A Couple Embracing in a Landscape
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

Academic Male Nude with Staff
Eugène Delacroix · 1816–20

Fragment of a cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

King's attendant
Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze
Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1517

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze
Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

Boy With a Staff
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · 1682–1754
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. 31 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. 250833 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 05:25 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.