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 “Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · mid-17th century

Bannerstone, Double-Notched Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · 6000–1000 BCE

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Bannerstone, Single-Notched Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · 6000–1000 BCE

Designs for Twelve Earrings
Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere
Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Euphiletos Painter · ca. 530 BCE

Design for an Altar
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1640–50

Vase in the shape of an archaic bronze vessel (gu)
Chen Jinhou · 18th century

Doors of a prison
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Incense burner in the shape of an archaic tripod (ding)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Chair
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)
Leagros Group · ca. 510 BCE

Design for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Town gate
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Terracotta kylix: hybrid Siana lip-cup (drinking cup)
C Painter · ca. 560 BCE

Gate of a barracks
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Cup in the shape of an archaic vessel with feline dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Two Designs for Altar Cross Bases; verso, Designs for Five Projects
Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · 1530–40
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. 436 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. 7484730 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-06 21:01 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.