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 “Funerary Stele with Wheel Pattern” — 50 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 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 Wheel Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Funerary Stele with Two Lions and Circle Pattern within a Niche
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Fragment from a Funerary Stele with a Medallion of a Cross and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Plate with trumpeter
Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Wire frame, broken wheel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

Spouted jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Wire frame, broken wheel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Wire frame, Rotary International emblem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 254600 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 16:29 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.