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 with partial chef” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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

Fragment with partial chef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Fragment with partial chef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Telemachus and Calypso
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Fragment with chef
Manufacture Anglaise du Chateau de Sevres · 1760

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

Fragment with chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

chef de piece
Artist not stated in the record · 1782–99

Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Textile
Lecier Freres · 1790s

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Panurge dans I'ile des lanternes
Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–90

Fragment of a terracotta relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Le demande en marriage
Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1795

Rim Shard Incised with the Name of Amenhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company
Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

Group of Vignettes copied from the Vatican Loggias
Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1770-80

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style
Unknown, Italian · ca. 1770–90
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. 504 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 310236 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-03 23:20 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.