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. 22 shown for “Terracotta architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs” — 51 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

"Orchstres places aux Champs elysees, dans le gran carres"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Coin cabinet
Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Glass mosaic inlay
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Molding and Ornamentation
Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

Glass mosaic inlay fragments
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

"Palmettes de Couronnement des orchestres"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect)
Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

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

Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Fragment of a Carpet with Quatrefoil Design
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1805

Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect)
Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

Classical and Pseudo-Classical Architectural Details
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1529216 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 19:35 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.