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 “Inlay fragment, patten of diamonds formed from smaller squares” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inlay fragment, patten of diamonds formed from smaller squares
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Inlay fragment, small colored squares forming a diamond pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 6th–7th century

Inlays and Shrine Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Design for Pendant with Half Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1825

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Design for Three Brooches
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

A Donor Presented by a Saint
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1460–65

Design for a Comb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Bandbox
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–38

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Design for a Coronet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Saints Michael and Francis
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Design for a Comb, Earring and Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · early 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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2979682 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 06:27 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.