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. 15 shown for “Crown with discs, uraeus coils and frontlet” — 49 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crown with discs, uraeus coils and frontlet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Letter case
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Crown with discs and uraeus coils
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Crown with discs and frontlet or rear edging
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Bird cage in the form of a circus wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

White braided pillbox hat
Unidentified · 1960s

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop
Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

Horse Muzzle
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1524778 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 16:24 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.