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 “Inscribed fragment” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inscribed fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Fragments in Forum, Rome
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

Inscribed Fragment of Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Oracle bone fragments, inscribed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250 - ca. 1050 BCE

Inscribed Fragment of Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Oracle bone fragment, inscribed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250 - ca. 1050 BCE

Inscribed Fragment of Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Inscribed Pot Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

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

Inscribed Pot Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1811

Inscribed Pot Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Plate IV, vol. II of "Le Antichita Romane"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1756

Inscribed Pot Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

A woman drawing
Jessie Curtis · ca. 1860

Inscribed Pot Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Jeremiah Draper's Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Marble inscribed block fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Apotheosis of Franklin
Artist not stated in the record · 1780s

Fragmentary marble inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Apotheosis of Franklin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Apotheosis of Franklin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
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. 764 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. 41382 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 2026-08-27 03:07 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.