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 “Corner Block from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern of Lines and Rosettes” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:26 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.
Corner Block from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern of Lines and Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Fragment from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern and Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century
Fragment from a Frieze with Meander Pattern and Diamond-Shaped Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century
Fragment from a Frieze with Meander Pattern and Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 500–599

Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

The Lamentation
Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1582

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

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

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759
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. 538 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:26 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.