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 “Capital with a Pattern of Leaves and Vines” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Capital with a Pattern of Leaves and Vines
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868
Capital with a Pattern of Grape Leaves and Vines
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

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

Vase on a column stand
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles · after 1771–72, mounts ca. 1780

Panel and fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sideboard Table
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Waistcoat fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Capital with Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Composite Papyrus Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

The Column from the Temple of Solomon
Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65 · 1570–73

Capital with Palmettes and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century

Ribbon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Fragment of a valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Fragment from a Molding with Intertwined Vines and Acanthus Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
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. 2151 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. 4066569 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 2026-08-28 21:27 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.