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 “Stone-paste fragment of moulded head” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

Stone-paste fragment of moulded head
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Moulded fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Wall tile (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Fragment moulded in high relief
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Moulded fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

Fragment moulded in high relief
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Head of a Central Asian Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Head of a sphinx (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Stone-paste disk fragment of a rider
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Designs for Nine Bands for Bases
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Fragment of a bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 15th 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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 184 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-07 11:05 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.