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 of a Marble Tomb Relief with Christ Giving the Law” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:02 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.

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Fragment of a Marble Tomb Relief with Christ Giving the Law
Artist not stated in the record · late 300s

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Saint Andrew
Andrea Bregno · 1491

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Marble relief fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 130–150 CE

Marble head of a youth from a relief
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Fragment of a Sarcophagus with a Seated Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250

Marble votive relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Marble sarcophagus fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE

Madonna and Child with Angels
Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1455–60
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. 109 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 13:02 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.