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 “Glass fragment with painted scene” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Glass fragment with painted scene
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Desk (Secretary)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–35

Bandbox fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Fragment with partial chef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1215

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Jubal and Miriam
William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Scènes romaines
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · ca. 1811

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Fragment
Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1825

Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Fragment
Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1825
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. 3215 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. 380188 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 21:22 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.