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. 19 shown for “Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70

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Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

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Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

Saint George Slaying the Dragon
Michael Pacher · ca. 1480

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Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Knife
Baiiof · ca. 1672

Medallion with Saint George Slaying The Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Head of a Crozier with Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1220–30

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Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 17th century

Intaglio with Saint Theodore Teron Slaying a Many-Headed Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1300 or later

Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1756

Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Saint Michael and the Dragon
Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Saints Michael and Francis
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Saint Michael
Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio · mid-1430s
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. 85 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. 1506652 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 13:01 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.