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 “Tomb model of a watch dog” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Tomb model of a watch dog
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

Model of a Granary with Scribes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Head of a tomb model of a dog
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

Watch
F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75

Tomb model of a watch tower
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century

Model of a Porch and Garden
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

Model Sporting Boat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Tomb figure of a barking dog
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Elevation of a Tomb
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Dog kennel
Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Dog Watching a Sleeping Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Upper grindstone from a tomb model of a mill
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Dog-Powered Treadmill, Patent Office
Artist not stated in the record

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, an Elephant, and a Lion
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Le Guet du Chien
Artist not stated in the record · 1851

Winter (one of a set of four)
Edme Bouchardon · probably mid-18th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1831
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. 948 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. 3854572 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 21:35 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.