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 “Fragmentary Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Woman” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:30 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.

Fragmentary Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Woman
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

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

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Fragmentary marble head of a girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Portrait of a Man with Gloves
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
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. 4029 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:30 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.