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 “Corner of a Bandage Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Corner of a Bandage Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

"Blackpool"
Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

Corner of a Sheet Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Cupids and Scroll Work
Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919 · ca. 1896

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

"Cairo 93"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Mummy Bandage Inscribed for Paherer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

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

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Savoyards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Coat-of-Arms
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1477 BCE

Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses
Patanazzi family · 1584

Charleston slave badge from 1815 for Mechanic No. 56 named Robert Cheevers
John Joseph Lafar, American, 1784 - 1849 · 1815

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Ceiling Design
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

Block fragment with cartouche of Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

page Three from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751
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. 1061 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 3970034 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 08:53 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.