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. 12 shown for “Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham” — 12 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Scottish Type Presented to Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797)
John Murdoch · ca. 1780

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

Chasuble with the Gathering of the Manna
Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · 1570

Tunic
Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Jacob van Dalen (1570–1644), Called Vallensis
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt · 1640

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter with a Donor; The Legend of Saint Anthony Abbot with a Donor; The Annunciation
Northern French Painter

Margaretha van Clootwijk (born about 1580/81, died 1662)
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt · 1639
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. 12 matched · 12 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:29 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.