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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. 24 shown for “Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:36 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.
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid

Cowroid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valise

Valise

Artist not stated in the record · 1883–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid

Cowroid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Modern Woodmen of America"

"Modern Woodmen of America"

Artist not stated in the record · patented 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Plant Motif

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Plant Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Inscribed with a Nefer Hieroglyph

Cowroid Inscribed with a Nefer Hieroglyph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ring, Cane handles and Seal Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Ring, Cane handles and Seal Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh

Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seal of the United States Marine Corps owned by Gen. Colin Powell, by United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775

Seal of the United States Marine Corps owned by Gen. Colin Powell

United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · 1989-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh

Cowroid Inscribed with an Ankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
POELE formant colonne tronquée, cannelée, à bandeaux, orné de bas-reliefs et surmonté d’un vase antique, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant colonne tronquée, cannelée, à bandeaux, orné de bas-reliefs et surmonté d’un vase antique

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Rosette

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Rosette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pierced Oval Cake Basket, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Pierced Oval Cake Basket

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Stamp Seal with a Nefer Hieroglyph Inscribed on the Base

Cowroid Stamp Seal with a Nefer Hieroglyph Inscribed on the Base

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Détails des differents Monuments projetée et executée à Soisy sous Etiole dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis par Dubois ainé Architecte Eleve et 1er neveu de feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails des differents Monuments projetée et executée à Soisy sous Etiole dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis par Dubois ainé Architecte Eleve et 1er neveu de feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 88 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. 1870210 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 06:36 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.