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. 12 shown for “Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Ashur-uballit, the king of Assyria, to the king of Egypt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott
Sir Richard Westmacott · 19th century

The Flight into Egypt
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Trial Piece with Relief of Head of Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna
Nina de Garis Davies · 1926; original ca. 1347–1330 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. 416 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:21 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.