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 “Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut” — 46 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Birth of Christ
Antonio Cavallucci, Italian, 1752 - 1795 · 18th century

Statue of the Priest Harnefer, son of Nesmin and of Nehemesrattawy
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

God the Father
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–50

The God's Father, Prophet of Amun in Karnak, Ankhpakhered, son of Nesmin and Tadisetdiankh
Artist not stated in the record · 380–300 BCE

Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1647–50

Block Statue of Nedjem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

God the Father and Angels
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for the Letter D of a Pictorial Alphabet: Dieu (God)
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

Fountains; architectural details
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

Ascension of the Virgin
Giuseppe Galeotti, Italian, 1708 - 1778 · late 18th century

Vignette, God the Father
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Orphrey band
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3303065 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 18:22 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.