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. 24 shown for “Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshiper” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshiper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Standing male worshiper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Ceiling with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Tableau Allégorique, pour L’Année Jubilaire du Regne de Louis Le Bien-Aimé
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1766

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Seated Putto with Medallion
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1783

Tiki (male figure)
Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Trophy Design
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

Seated elder
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Project for Part of a Painted Decoration
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–75

Armchair (one of a set of six)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Ornamental Design for the Decoration of a Tankard
Artist not stated in the record · 1717-1794

Enthroned deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Medallions et cartouches a l'antique
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1800–05

Marble seated harp player
Artist not stated in the record · 2800–2700 BCE

Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780
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. 1051 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. 3313656 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 21:47 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.