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 “Tray with Sun Symbol” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tray with Sun Symbol
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Tray, from a Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

Tray
Tiffany & Co. · 1879–80

Designs for Braziers and Trays, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

Glove tray
M(?).B. · 1723–24

Sundial compass
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Tray
Artist not stated in the record · 1250–1300

The Sun, from The Seven Planets
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Fire Bucket, "Jonas White"
unknown · 19th century

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Tray
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Design Amulet with Loop on Back, Device with Dancing God, Hathor Symbol and Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2325–2150 BCE

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist John
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1695

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Mark
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Luke
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 446 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. 261340 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 18:46 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.