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: Vaulted Interior” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Roman Interior
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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

Cabinet
Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Vault
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design for the Interior of a Vaulted Hall and a Capital
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set
Carlo Zucchi the Younger · ca. 1748–95

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

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Interior of Prison
Luigi Ricci, Italian, 1823 - 1896 · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Underground Stairways and Galleries of a Fortified Palace
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1800

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Building
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Interior of Palace
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

Stage Set of a Room Interior with Receding Perspective
Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century · 1700–1780

Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Palace
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1846

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior
Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Stage Design, Classical Temple Interior with Tombs
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 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. 160 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 668518 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 2026-09-05 10:11 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.