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. 19 shown for “Marble sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene” — 47 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:28 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 sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene
Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century CE

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

Marble sarcophagus fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Fragmentary marble sarcophagus with scenes from the Oresteia
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1801–25

Right corner of a marble sarcophagus with the myth of Apollo and the satyr Marsyas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 210–230 CE

The Sarcophagus
Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

Fragment of a Marble Tomb Relief with Christ Giving the Law
Artist not stated in the record · late 300s

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

Marble sarcophagus fragment of "The Judgement of Paris"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Sarcophagus and Allegorical Figures
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th–19th century

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation
Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480

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

Design for a Sarcophagus
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

Design for a Sarcophagus
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

Marriage scenes
Alexandre Buquet, French, 1802–1865 · ca. 1825

Project for a Sepulchral Monument
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)
Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 51284 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 10:28 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.