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 “Design for a Painted Frieze” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Design for a painted frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1775-1800

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a painted frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1750

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Console table
Richard de Lalonde · 1780–90

Design for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

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

Project for a Painted Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

Marble female figure
Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Design for Parts of a Coach
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

Plate with figures in arbor
Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1740

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

Plate depicting a lady with parasol
Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1734–37

Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1830–60
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. 4803 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2105467 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 06:25 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.