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 “Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Overdoor Design Set Within a Vault
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Aegis of Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

Bastet with lion-headed aegis and basket
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Amuletic aegis of Bastet or Sakhmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Design for a Ewer with Handle in the Shape of a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1600

Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Designs for a Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Statuette of a lion-headed goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

Aegis of Bastet / Sakhmet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Bastet on a throne decorated with the decans
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Teapot with Lion Head Spout
Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868 · 1825–1838

Bastet Hieroglyph Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Study of a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815
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. 87 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. 420 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-26 17:58 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.