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 “Vignette” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel
Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

La course au Sanglier (The Boar Hunt)
Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · ca. 1785

Vase with Landscape Vignette
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Chinoiserie Vignette with Singe
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

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

Rocaille Vignette
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Trade card of John Brown, Chairs and Cabinet-work, at the Three Cover'd Chairs & Walnut Tree, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Joseph Champion · 1742–61

Chinoiserie Vignette with Singe
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Vignette from the Book of the Dead, Tomb of Nefertari
Nina de Garis Davies · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Chinoiserie Vignette
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Charles XII at Bender (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 30)
William Hogarth · 1723–24

Chinoiserie Vignette
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Mummy bandage of Hepmeneh, born of Tasheritentaqeri, inscribed with text and vignette from the Book of the Dead
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Chinoiserie Vignette
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Universal Architecture: Book I, Six Original Designs of Arbours; Book II, Six Original Designs for Grottoes
Thomas Wright · 1755 and 1758

Chinoiserie Rocaille Vignette
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Frontispiece, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)
Stefano della Bella · 1640

Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

Saint Jean Gualbert trampling a monster with two human heads and a serpentine body, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)
Stefano della Bella · 1640

Slop Bowl with Chinoiserie Vignettes
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

The test of fire, the monk Peter, the disciple Saint John Gualbert, passing through the flames from two pyres unharmed, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)
Stefano della Bella · 1640

Vignette with a Blank Oval shield
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75
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. 647 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. 1599 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 2026-09-02 18:28 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.