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 “Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

"Modern Woodmen of America"
Artist not stated in the record · patented 1904

Cowroid Stamp Seal with an Ankh Inscribed on the Base
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

Scarab Inscribed with an Ankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Design for an Embroidered Frontal
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

Ring Fragment Inscribed with an Ankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Designs for Ceiling Decorations, with Plan of Spectators' Room of a Theater
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Advertisement for "Ludens Menthol Cough Drops"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Cowroid Inscribed with a Nefer Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Cowroid Set in a Ring Bezel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 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

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

Elephant Hotel, Atlantic City
Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

Cowroid Seal-Amulet Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1479 BCE

Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright
R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957

Cowroid Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1479 BCE

Cynopterus sphinx angulatus
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1969

Cowroid Seal Inscirbed for Maatkare
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Portrait of Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617-1677)
Artist not stated in the record · 1696-1700
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. 38 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 312549 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 06:30 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.