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. 12 shown for “Chalice rim fragment with palm fronds” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Chalice rim fragment with palm fronds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Stem of lotiform goblet with palm fronds in relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE or ca. 945–924 BCE

Chalice fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Chalice fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Reconstructed lotiform chalice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Chalice fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Rim fragment with head of calf and "stylized trees"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Chalice rim fragment with floral chain and scene of man in papyrus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Rim of chalice foot decorated with papyrus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Relief chalice rim fragment with a wedjat frieze and below that a Hathor sistrum head emerging from papyrus plants (joined with 2010.9)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 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. 157 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 22:18 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.