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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 “Frieze with Sphinxes” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Frieze and ceiling
Virgilio Tojetti · 1881–82
Frieze with Sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71
Design for a Grotesque Frieze
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1740–1775
Design for a Frieze with a Censer, Sphinxes and Acanthus Scrolls
Gilles Paul Cauvet · ca. 1760–80
Designs for a Mantelpiece
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1785
Cup with a frieze of gazelles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE
Two Friezes with Rams, Candelabra, Trophies and Putti
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805
Terracotta oinochoe:olpe (jug)
Sphinx Painter · ca. 630–610 BCE
Possible Design for an Overdoor Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–mid- 18th century
Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE
Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20
Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544
Wall painting on red ground: candelabrum with frieze, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE
Design for a painted frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1750
Senwosret III as a Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900
Bronze shield boss with griffin and sphinx frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650 BCE
Three Friezes
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800
Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE
Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Project for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
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. 1696 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 249755 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 2026-08-28 14:15 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.