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 “Arch with Running Vines, Leaves, and Fruit” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Arch with Running Vines, Leaves, and Fruit
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Tent panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Basket of Fruit
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1620

Border and sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865

Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Domino paper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Ornamental Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
Gerard David · ca. 1500

Coffre a Racine
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures
Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561 · 1550

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Napkin fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1890

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–early 17th century

Panel with Horse Heads
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 145 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1543403 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 03:46 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.