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 funerary altar of Cominia Tyche” — 50 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:43 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 funerary altar of Cominia Tyche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–100 CE

Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Marble funerary altar
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Project for an altar: intended to be executed in colored marbles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Marble funerary altar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–68 CE

Altar of Colored Marbles,
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

Marble pediment of a funerary altar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 120–130 CE

Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy
Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · ca. 1760

Saint Andrew
Andrea Bregno · 1491

Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Marble fragment of a cinerary urn
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

Marble cinerary urn
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Design for an Altar
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Title Page
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2860193 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 18:43 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.