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. 22 shown for “Fragments of the marble stele (grave marker) of a woman holding a baby” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:48 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 the marble stele (grave marker) of a woman holding a baby
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–375 BCE

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Postcard of a woman holding a baby
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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

Baby's Left Hand (unfinished)
Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · n.d.

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Family Scene: Feeding a Baby
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Daguerreotype of a woman with a child on her lap
Artist not stated in the record · 1839-1865

Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440–425 BCE

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Marble grave stele with a family group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Carte-de-visite of a Black woman with a white infant in Argentina
Artist not stated in the record · 1895

Bathroom and Boudoir Interior
Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823 · 1807

Marble stele (grave marker) of Lysistrate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–325 BCE

Albumen print of a sharecropping family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Birth of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

Fragment of a marble stele (grave marker)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–375 BCE

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70
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. 104 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. 3960089 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-26 20:48 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.