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 “Brick of the Scribe Nebamun” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brick of the Scribe Nebamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Scribe Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Carpenter's scribe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1828

Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Building brick from Spelman College's Upton Hall
Unidentified · ca. 1905

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Building brick from Bethune-Cookman University's White Hall
Unidentified · ca. 1916

Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company
Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Kanakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Brick from the Waterside Mall development in Southwest neighborhood of Washington, DC
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1972

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Sennetjer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Brick from a cistern found at Florida A&M University
Unidentified · ca. 1890

Funerary Cone of the Scribe User
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Building brick from the White House
Jeremiah Kale, American, active late 18th century · 1793-1797; removed 1950

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Aanen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1347 BCE

Brick from the Chattahoochee Brick Company
Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · late 19th century - early 20th century

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Bag containing a piece of brick from Fort Sumter owned by Marquis Peterson
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Min
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

The Bank of Vernal brick
Artist not stated in the record · 1916
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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2982728 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 22:33 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.