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. 9 shown for “Cylinder seal and modern impression: rows of animals; falcons flanking goat, Taweret goddesses” — 43 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cylinder seal and modern impression: rows of animals; falcons flanking goat, Taweret goddesses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Allegorical Scene with Aurora
Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

Cylinder seal and modern impression: animal-headed divinities with prey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE

Four Antique Goddesses
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

Cylinder seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 19th–16th century BCE

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

Grotesques
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

Design for the Decoration of Four Pilaster Strips
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4140637 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 04:54 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.