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. 19 shown for “Yamantaka, Destroyer of the God of Death” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Yamantaka, Destroyer of the God of Death
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Family register sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1832

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1773

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack
Artist not stated in the record · January 20, 1910

Vajrabhairava mandala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–32

The Holy Bible
Artist not stated in the record · after 1900

The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Ferocious Destroyer of Ignorance
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1821

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Mask
Unidentified

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

Mask
Unidentified

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Coffin of Khnumnakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Head of the god Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 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. 673 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. 2986343 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:59 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.