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 “Raised relief fragment with part of an inscription” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Raised relief fragment with part of an inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon
Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Wall tile (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

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

Stuart Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century
![Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8597_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Door in a garden wall
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy
Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot
Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE
![Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?], by Unknown, Italian](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8CEE466C0AF22-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]
Unknown, Italian · early 19th 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. 2135 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. 2919845 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 2026-08-27 04:08 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.