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 “Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame” — 15 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:19 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.

Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Funerary Stele with Cross at Center in Architectural Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Funerary Stele with Architectural Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Triptych with the Passion of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
Inscribed Stele with a Cross at Center of Architectural Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Master Pertoldus · 1494

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt
Giovanni Lanfranco · 1582–1647

Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 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 00:19 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.