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 “Ornament Frontal” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ornament Frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

Earflare Frontal
Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

"Five Different Fillets," Plate 6 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"
Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

Earflare with spider
Moche artist(s) · 200–900 CE

Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Earflare Frontal
Moche artist · 250-850 CE

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Earflare Frontal
Moche artist · 250-850 CE

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Ear flare frontal
Moche artist(s) · 3rd–7th century

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Ear flare frontal
Moche artist(s) · 200–600

Sopha Orné de Sculpture et totalement fini
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Earflare Frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–7th century

Sopha Orné de Sculpture et totalement fini
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Earflare Frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–7th century CE

Costé des croisées d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1740
Earflare Frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

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

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 186 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. 34418 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 2026-09-06 15:37 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.