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. 12 shown for “Mat From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stage Design, Courtyard of an Egyptian Temple
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple
Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850 · 1815

Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple
Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850 · 1815

Tomb of Civil War Unknowns and Temple of Fame at Arlington National Cemetary
Gruber, Martin A · 1919

Stage Design, Interior of Egyptian Temple
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · 1810–30

Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior
Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · ca. 1750

Monument for an Accademia della Pace
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

Samples from Malmaison
Augustin François André Picot, French · 1804

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

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

Stage Design, Hall in a Babylonian Palace for the Opera "Ciro in Babylonia" by Gioacchino Rossini
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1818–19
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1361898 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 09:02 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.