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. 12 shown for “Block from an Arch with Running Rosette Medallions” — 23 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Block from an Arch with Running Rosette Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Block from an Arch with a Rosette
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century
Block from an Arch with a Rosette Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Block from an Arch with a Cross
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

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

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

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

Table
Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)

Section from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa)
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:55 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.