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 “Fragment of a Fan” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

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

Fragment of a Fan
Artist not stated in the record · probably 10th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Fragment of a Queen's Face
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 300–100 BC

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1215

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Portrait of William Duguid
Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Lingnania chungii (McClure) McClure
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1925

Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

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

Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

Square fragment: showing Buddhist procession
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century

Mural
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 500–550 CE

Fan advertising the American Beach Negro Ocean Playground
Unidentified · ca. 1935
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. 28319 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 3864592 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 15:54 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.