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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reconstruction of a Cavetto Cornice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Ornamental woodwork detail
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh
Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

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

Cavetto Tile from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

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

Reconstruction of a Cartouche of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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

Fragment of a Cornice Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

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

Relief plaque of Hathor emblem, curved as if from a temple frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

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

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

Corniches d'Impériales de Lit
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Corniches d'Impériales de Lit
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Sketch of a Capital and Cornice Profile
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Design for a Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Cornice (Ceiling) Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th 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. 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.