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 “Stars & Crescent Art Gallery” — 60 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 14:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Stars & Crescent Art Gallery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio], by Stars & Crescent Art Gallery](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-423.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Stars & Crescent Art Gallery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio]
Stars & Crescent Art Gallery · 1880s–1890s

Hooked Rug with Stars, Crescent and Fret
Unidentified · after 1850

Earring, One of a Pair
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Welcome Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1621

Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Thakur Ajit Singh worships the Goddess
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1817

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Star Fish
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

Tea caddy (one of a pair)
Christopher Jonsen · 1758

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 1301–50

Charles Loring Elliott
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860

Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–first half 14th century

Pieced quilt (Ohio Star)
Unidentified · ca. 1845

Schellenbaum
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Pieced quilt (Variable Star)
Unidentified · ca. 1840

Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

The three stars
Formerly attributed to Gong Kai 龔開 (1222-1307) · 16th century

Pen Box
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century?
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 3 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. 128 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 14:11 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.