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 “Marble fragment of a relief with a flying Eros” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1792

Marble fragment of a relief with a flying Eros
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Two Panels of Ornament Design
Charles Errard, French, c. 1601 - 1689 · 1664-1689

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

George Scott Winslow
Edmonia Lewis, American, 1844 - 1907 · 1866

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Tile
Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908 · ca. 1905

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici
Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · ca. 1690

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

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

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome
Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)
Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Quilt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Marble grave stele with a family group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805
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. 1554 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. 3962588 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 03:44 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.