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 bar” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:32 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 of a bar
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

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

Fragment of a bar
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

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

Fragment of a bar used for inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 503-30 BCE

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

Fragment of a bar for inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Guitar
Jean-Baptiste Voboam · 1697

Fragment of a bar for slicing
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Iron bar
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–5th century BCE ?

Fragment of a bar
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1215

Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Inside the Bar
Winslow Homer · 1883

Fragment of a bar for inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Goqing
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Bala
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment of a bar for slicing inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

Portrait of William Duguid
Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

EET 83309,2
Artist not stated in the record · 1983

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700
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. 27608 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3864346 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-04 01:32 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.