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 “Project for a Ceiling Frieze” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Cup with a frieze of gazelles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

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

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

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

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

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

Project for a Ceiling Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1783

Project for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Neptune and the Winds
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Project for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th 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. 432 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2503449 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 04:48 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.