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. 23 shown for “Band with Vegetal Motif” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Band with Vegetal Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–9th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Design for a ceiling
Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735 · ca. 1730
Bowl with Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Écuelle
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Richly Decorated Tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Frieze
Howell and Brothers, 1835 – 1900 · 1880–1900

Terracotta vessel fragment with floral motif and band
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Frieze
W.H. Mairs & Co., 1855 · 1905–1915

Bowl with Red and Black Vegetal Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Alternative Designs for a Metal Gate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Pierced Blue Pot with Animals and Vegetal Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 11th or 12th century
![Ornament Design with Fish Motif, from Livre des Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 16 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26867_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Ornament Design with Fish Motif, from Livre des Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 16 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Palma with textile motif
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 800–1100 CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Mask
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825
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. 1060 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 273972 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 13:22 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.