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 “Woman Holding a Flute and Dressed as Krishna” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woman Holding a Flute and Dressed as Krishna
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late 18th century

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series
Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1801-1805

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Standing Bedouin Figure
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869 - 1870

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

Vanderbilt Mantelpiece
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · ca. 1881–83

Albumen photograph of Wild West Performers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1905

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

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Krishna entertains his companions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760-1765

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

LA THÉOLOGIE
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 5th century

LA THÉOLOGIE
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

Frieze and ceiling
Virgilio Tojetti · 1881–82

Lobby card for Girl in Room 20
United Films, active ca. 1940s · ca. 1949

Estate Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Le Rendez-vous
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson and two other women posing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
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. 235 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. 2908958 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-28 02:47 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.