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 “Apis” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Apis
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Dryobalanops rappa Becc.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1952

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

Leptothrix symplocoides Dickie
Artist not stated in the record

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

Leptothrix symplocoides Dickie
Artist not stated in the record

Apis Bull Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE
Mallota apis
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1996 to 21 Jul 1996

Amulet, Head of an Apis Bull
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Coix lacryma-jobi L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1933

Apis, inscribed
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE
Eragrostis trichophora
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1964

Apis(?)
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Apis figure inscribed for Padishernefer son of Khonsuirdis
Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Coffin Footboard depicting Apis bull carrying mummy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–525 BCE
![Apis with an inscription invoking Ptah for the benefit of Pasheryta[...] whose mother was Isetemhat](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Feg%2Fweb-large%2FLC-90_6_8_EGDP030051.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Apis with an inscription invoking Ptah for the benefit of Pasheryta[...] whose mother was Isetemhat
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers
Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Upper part of a statuette of the Mother of the Apis
Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 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. 61 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. 110 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 2026-08-27 18:45 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.