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 “Stage Design, Palace Courts” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design, Palace Courts
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Stage Design, Palace Court
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Stage Design, Palace Court with Stairs
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Stage Design; Palace Court
Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena · late 17th century

Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · ca. 1680–1710

Stage Design, Open Palace Court
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Stage Designs, Views into Palace Courts
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1820

Bowl with floral and abstract motifs and inscription
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1847

Stage Design, Palace Courtyard
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Stage Design, Palace Courtyards and Staircases
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Stage Design, Exterior of Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1756

Stage Design, Palace Interior
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs
Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Stage Design: A Royal Palace at the Seaside
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)
Josef Platzer · mid-18th–early 19th century

Two Designs for Portico and Court of Palace
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 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. 586 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. 651153 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 20:47 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.