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. 12 shown for “Relief Fragment Depicting a Kneeling Woman” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Relief Fragment Depicting a Kneeling Woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Kneeling female figure
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Stucco relief fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

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

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Relief Depicting the Purification of Queen Kiya (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century CE

Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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

Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2020–2000 B.C.

Kneeling Black woman
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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. 912 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:06 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.