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 “Wing of an Ivory Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wing of an Ivory Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · 970–1030

Design for a Chapel Wall
Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Adoration of the Shepherds
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Altarpiece
Unidentified · 1100-1200

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Madonna and Child
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640 · ca. 1615-1618

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid- to late 15th century

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490

Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Marie Antoinette triptych figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Triptych with the Passion of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Designs for Carved Trophies
François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748
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. 703 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. 3127514 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 01:50 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.