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 “Fragments of a Palm Column” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragments of a Palm Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2353–2323 BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Palm Column of Sahure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Fragment of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

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

Two capitals of columns, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Kohl Tube in the form of a Palm Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Five marble architectural fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–92 CE

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter of the sixth century BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Kohl Tube
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Artist not stated in the record · 460–440 BCE

Ruins at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 24, 1869

Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Artist not stated in the record · 540–530 BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Kohl Tube
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1811
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. 1159 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. 3865371 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 11:06 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.