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. 23 shown for “Frieze Fragment” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:54 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Frieze fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

A Satyr Drinking Surrounded by Children
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

Frieze
Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915

Fragment of a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Sidewall and border
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–90

Fragment of a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Frieze and Cornice Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

Fragment of a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Frieze and Ornament Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

Frieze fragment
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style
Unknown, Italian · ca. 1770–90

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

Frieze Designs
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

Fragment from a Frieze with a Meander Pattern and Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1645

Frieze Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Entablature in the Classical Style
Unknown, Italian · 1770–90

Frieze Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Tombeau monumental avec urne funéraire au premier plan (Monumental Tomb with Urn in the Foreground)
Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

Frieze fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design)
Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · 1783
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. 248 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. 41299 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-02 07:54 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.