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. 22 shown for “Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

The Column from the Temple of Solomon
Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65 · 1570–73

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE–early 2nd century CE

Design for a Candlestick
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1810

Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Design for a Candlestick
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

Marble fragment of an Ionic column base from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century BCE

Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 3rd century BCE

Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Marble architectural fragment with palmette from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd or 2nd century BCE

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

A Classical Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Details of Decorative Architecture
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Design for a Wall
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

The Parthenon and Ruined Fragments, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Marble molding fragment from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 117–138 CE

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Marble stele with a Lydian inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE?

Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610
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. 33 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3139421 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 2026-08-26 18:22 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.