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 frontal with alternative suggestions” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Earflare Frontal
Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Project for a frontal with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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

Drawing
Carlo Amati, Italian, 1776 – 1852 · ca. 1802

Cabinet frontal with panels from two Embriachi caskets
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1400–1409

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Project for the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

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

Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Project for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1760–70

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Project for a reliquary shrine, with alternative suggestions, intended to be executed in stone
Artist not stated in the record · Early 18th century

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Project for a Crest with Alternate Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

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

Design for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1775
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. 1343 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2591146 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 2026-09-06 19:06 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.