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. 18 shown for “Votive Tablet with Deity” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Votive Tablet with Deity
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Bronze votive tablet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Ornament Design, Roman Votive, Panel with Dionysian Pattern of Grapes and Pinecones, and Eagle atop a Roman Standard.
Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

Enthroned deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Deity figure
Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · late 18th century

Limestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to Apollo
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Sketches for a tablet
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1750

Standing Female Deity
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Memorial Tablets for Severoli Family, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1811

Relief plaque with the head of a ram deity
Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Lead votive plaque
Artist not stated in the record · probably 3rd century CE

Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif
Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif
Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Hilya (Votive Tablet)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Cow plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
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. 132 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 250717 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:29 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.