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. 11 shown for “Varaha Triumphant” — 23 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Varaha Triumphant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Detail of the Sculpture the Triumphant Return on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Triumphant Star Turban
Artist not stated in the record

Triumphant Star Turban
Artist not stated in the record

Church Triumphant over Falsehood
Paolo de Mattheis, Italian, 1662 - 1728 · ca. 1700

Sketches for a Ceiling Painting: The Triumphant Church
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678–1745 · ca. 1750

Design for Victory holding a Wreath and Trumpet and Studies for Various Decorations
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

The Close of the Battle or the Champion Triumphant
Unidentified · October 3, 1811

The Spaniard
Robinson, Henry R. · 1833-1843

Missionary Society Certificate by Nathaniel Currier
Currier, Nathaniel · 1848

Ira Aldridge as Othello
Henry Perronet Briggs, c. 1791 - 18 Jan 1844 · c. 1830
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 22 matched · 22 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:10 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.