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. 18 shown for “West's” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Benjamin West and Family
D. P. Pariset, 1740 - 1840? · 1781

Mourning hat
West's · ca. 1888

Symploca cuspidata var. luteofusca W. West & G.S. West
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1892

Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Polycystis elongata W. West & G.S. West
Artist not stated in the record · May 1900

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Chroococcus minor f. minimus W. West & G.S. West
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1892 to Dec 1892

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Hapalosiphon intricatus W. West & G.S. West
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1892 to Dec 1892

Lakshmi
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Symploca cuspidata W. West & G.S. West
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1892 to Dec 1892

Plaque with Standing Yakshi
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Kali
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript
Mahavihara Master · early 12th century
Plaque with a Winged Goddess and Two Attendants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE
Plaque with the Goddess Durga Standing on a Lotus
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

The Sun God Surya(?) in His Chariot with Wives and Attendants
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE
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. 11326 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 525351 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:52 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.