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 “Standing Male Deity (Perhaps Vishnu) Holding a Conch” — 56 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing Male Deity (Perhaps Vishnu) Holding a Conch
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century or earlier

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

Standing Male Deity (possibly Shiva)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Fisher Boy
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1844

Striding Pan
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · 1530–1539

The Study of Grand Duchess Cecilia von Oldenberg
Ernst Christian Anton von Lautzow · 1839

Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Designs for Two Vertical Panels
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

A Figure with Drapery, Perhaps Dante
Artist not stated in the record · 1806

Manuscript Cover with Vishnu Flanked by Lakshmi and Sarasvati
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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

House model
Nayarit artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Ewer with a Satyr Holding a Large Conch (Vico)
Artist not stated in the record · 1543

Mandala of the Bodhisattva Hannya (Prajnaparamita)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Standing male figure with book
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Stela with man offering to Re-Harakhty, unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Design for Wall or Ceiling Decoration with Bacchus, Hymen and Venus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790–1800

Vessel with ritual scene
Recuay artist(s) · 200–700 CE

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1893

Architectural Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600 CE

Standing male figure in chiton
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70
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. 16 matched · 16 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. 2296481 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-29 17:58 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.