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 “Funerary Stele with Cross at Center in Architectural Frame” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Funerary Stele with Cross at Center in Architectural Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Elevation of a Royal Catafalque
Luca Arinelli, Italian, active 1770 · late 18th century

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

Project: the decoration of a panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

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

Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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

Design for an Easter Sepulchre
Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810 · ca. 1757

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

Eight designs for altar mensae
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Funerary Stele with Ankh (Looped Cross) Featuring a Human Face at the Center
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria
Friedrich von Schmidt, German, 1825 - 1891 · ca. 1880

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Wire frame, cross & star center on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

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

Tablet with an inscription
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Wire frame, crown & cross on folding stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Wire frame, crown & cross, small
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Wire frame, crown & cross, small
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century

Wire frame, Maltese cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940
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. 955 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. 7479244 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 00:17 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.