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 “Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Portrait of Mauro Tesi in a medallion, surrounded by architectural elements
Artist not stated in the record · 1787

The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

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

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Album of Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions, Flowers, and Friezes
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Four Incense Burners, a Bracket and an Ornemental Motif
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591)
Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) · 1548

Panel Designs of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

Medallion Decoration
George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910 · 1885–95

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90
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. 25 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. 3974537 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 2026-09-02 03:37 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.