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. 23 shown for “Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Stage Design, Antique Buildings
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Container with Figures under an Arcade
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Stage Design of Antique Buildings and Details
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Building
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

Stage Design, Group of Ruined Buildings with Obelisks
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style
Artist not stated in the record · after 1787

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Stage Design, Interior of Hall in Antique Style
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Stage Design, Antique Ruins, Interior
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

Parade Shield Depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings
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. 524 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. 3222617 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 08:40 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.