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, row of stars” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:27 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, row of stars
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

Inlay fragment with row of rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Inlay with row of rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1250–74

Inlay fragment, rows of zigzag lines
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Sarong fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pair of Minbar Doors
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Glass mosaic inlay fragments
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Wooden Inlay Fragment Created By Peter Glass
Glass, Peter · Late 19th C.

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Fragment of inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Cabinet frontal with panels from two Embriachi caskets
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1400–1409

Fragment of an inlay with fish design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Loom Width with Floral and Tiger-stripe Design
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Fragment of an inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-18 CE
Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Fragment of an inlay with floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Ewer Base with Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · first half 13th century

Fragment of an inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Fragment of an inlay with fish design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 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. 44 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. 2877725 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 18:27 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.