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 Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)
Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

Mosaic floor panel
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Corner Design for Mosaic Floor
Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852–1932 · ca. 1900

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Fragment of a plate with a heavy moulded rim
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

Mosaic floor with Egyptianizing scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 130–150 CE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Section of a Marble Mosaic Bathhouse Floor
Artist not stated in the record · 537/538

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Mihrab (Prayer Niche)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 755 AH/1354–55 CE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Prie-dieu
Stammer & Breul · 1855

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Pair of Minbar Doors
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

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

Corner Design for Mosaic Floor
Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852–1932 · ca. 1900
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. 882 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3889023 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-26 18:20 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.