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Images / art

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. 23 shown for “Canopic Jar Inscribed for King Nesibanebdjedet (Smendes)” — 54 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 15:23 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Canopic Jar Inscribed for King Nesibanebdjedet (Smendes)

Canopic Jar Inscribed for King Nesibanebdjedet (Smendes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

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

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Fire King Gas Ranges", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Fire King Gas Ranges"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tobacco Jar, by Vergulde Bloempot [de] (the Golden Flowerpot)

Tobacco Jar

Vergulde Bloempot [de] (the Golden Flowerpot) · ca. 1735–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Model Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan de l’Hostel de Monsr. Le Commandeur du Jars, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan de l’Hostel de Monsr. Le Commandeur du Jars

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Verse Jar), by David ("Dave") Drake, born ca. 1800-died after 1870

Untitled (Verse Jar)

David ("Dave") Drake, born ca. 1800-died after 1870 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (with lid 30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (with lid 30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Maruta

Canopic Jar of Maruta

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"I Am W.W. King, Who The [Devil] Are You"

"I Am W.W. King, Who The [Devil] Are You"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Manuwai

Canopic Jar of Manuwai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary Jar

Apothecary Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 502767 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 15:23 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.