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 “Workshop of Cambiaso” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and a Donor
Workshop of Cambiaso · ca. 1560

Drawing
L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Drawing
L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Drawing
L. Cambiaso, Italian, n.d.

Torso of a Bodhisattva
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Sleeping Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1610

Tenor Recorder
Bassano · ca. 1600

Two pieces of pyrite from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience
Artist not stated in the record · n.d.

Shawl
Emile-Frédéric Hébert · ca. 1860

Needlenose pliers from the workshop of C. Edgar Patience
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1972

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Tondo mirror frame
Benedetto da Maiano · ca. 1480

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

Apothecary jar (orciuolo)
Giunta di Tugio · probably 1431
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. 4711 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. 2858592 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 2026-09-02 06:44 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.