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. 13 shown for “Weight equal to five deben” — 51 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Weight equal to five deben
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2649–2100 BCE

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow
Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

Myriad Birds:A Playful Poetry Contest (Momo chidori kyōka-awase), 2 vols.
Kitagawa Utamaro · 1790

Ring Sealstone
Artist not stated in the record · probably 10th century

Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Saint Matthew
Antonio Susini · 1596

Saint John
Antonio Susini · 1596

"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl · dated 621 AH/1224 CE

The risen Christ
Antonio Susini · 1596
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1076837 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:21 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.