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 “Shroud” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 10:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shroud
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250–1000 BCE

Angels Carrying the Holy Cross and Shroud
Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613 - 1699 · 1661–66

Mummy with a Painted Mask Depicting a Woman Holding a Goblet
Artist not stated in the record · 270–280 CE

Jug
William Watts Taylor, American, 1847-1913 · 1891

Shroud of Hori
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Neomeris cokerii
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1905

Shroud
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 125 CE

Calothrix crustacea Thur. ex Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1905

Painted Shroud Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Mountains and Clouds, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1865

Painted Shroud Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Trophy Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777–79

Bead Shroud of Tabakenkhonsu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1967

Bead Net
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–525 BCE

Shroud of a Woman Wearing a Fringed Tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 170–200 CE

Fragment of a painted mummy shroud
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–3rd century CE

Shroud of Ahmose Penhet, Son of Ahhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)
An Gyeon · ca. 1450–1500
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. 204 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 165 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 2026-08-30 10:49 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.