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 “Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with a Foliate Square and Circle” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:19 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.
Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with a Foliate Square and Circle
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537
Inscribed Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with a Cross and Rosette Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Lion
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Fragment of a Frieze with the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Frieze with a Pattern of Octagons and Squares
Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th–12th century

Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Inscribed Lintel from the Tomb of the Overseer of Priests and Keeper of the Sacred Cattle Mereri, Describing His Exemplary Life
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–2030 B.C.

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
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. 55 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 2026-08-28 00:19 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.