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Images / art

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 “Reconstruction of a Cavetto Cornice” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Reconstruction of a Cavetto Cornice

Reconstruction of a Cavetto Cornice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental woodwork detail, by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

Ornamental woodwork detail

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cornice Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cornice Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh

Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cornice Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cornice Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cavetto Tile from the palace of Ramesses II

Cavetto Tile from the palace of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cornice Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cornice Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Cartouche of Amenhotep III

Reconstruction of a Cartouche of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cornice Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cornice Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Cornice Panel

Fragment of a Cornice Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornice Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cornice Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief plaque of Hathor emblem, curved as if from a temple frieze

Relief plaque of Hathor emblem, curved as if from a temple frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cornice Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cornice Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Corniches d'Impériales de Lit, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Corniches d'Impériales de Lit

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Corniches d'Impériales de Lit, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Corniches d'Impériales de Lit

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Capital and Cornice Profile

Sketch of a Capital and Cornice Profile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary

Design for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Cornice (Ceiling) Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Cornice (Ceiling) Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 54 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. 3851979 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 03:29 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.