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 “Scroll” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bottle with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Scroll
Anonymous · ca. 1800

Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 5th century

Birds and Flowers
Kano Motonobu · mid-16th century

Madonna and Child with Scroll
Luca della Robbia · ca. 1455

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Bottle with Lotus Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Scarab with Scroll Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)
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. 5392 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 10746 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 08:10 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.