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 Painted Decoration of a Dome” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Project for the Painted Decoration of a Dome
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling
Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817 · 1800–1815

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Painted decoration of a vaulted room
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

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

Cross Section of a Salon and a Gallery
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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

Design for a Carriage
Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt II, German, 1709–ca. 1778 · 1753

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

Design for the South Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1817

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Design for the Decoration of a Dome
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Portrait of a Lady Holding a Flower
Muhammadi of Herat · 1565–75

Cabriolet
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Trophy Cup and Case
Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727 · 1773–75

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Mural Decoration, Dome of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917 · 1892

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Marble female figure
Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Altar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 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. 5983 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. 4197345 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 18:35 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.