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. 23 shown for “Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Endymion” — 64 records examined, 3 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 with the myth of Endymion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd 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 with the myth of Selene and Endymion
Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century CE

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

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

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

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Diane et Endymion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 130–150 CE

Roman Sarcophagus
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

Marble sarcophagus with garlands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–225 CE

Sepulchral Monument
Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · ca. 1760

Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

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

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

Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Eight tombs
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790-1800

Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ
Artist not stated in the record · early 300s, with modern restoration

Monument of King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Stuart Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793
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. 109 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. 3012619 matched · 40 examined · 3 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.