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 the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

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

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

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

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions
Unknown, Austrian · 1835–50

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

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

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

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

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

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–50

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Organ Case with Arms of P
Artist not stated in the record · 1655–67

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek
Hans of Landshut · 1498

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternative Suggestions
Unknown, Austrian · 1840–60

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Design for a Painted Wall Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions
Unknown, Austrian · 1835–40

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60
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. 3555 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. 3361473 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 2026-09-03 19:29 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.