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. 12 shown for “Foot covering from a mummy, with scorpions on soles” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Foot covering from a mummy, with scorpions on soles
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century BCE–1st century CE

Panel from beneath feet of a cartonnage, with scorpions on soles
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century BCE–1st century CE

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Mask and Foot Cover of "Corn Mummy"
Artist not stated in the record · 400–250 BCE

Mummy of Ukhhotep, son of Hedjpu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Coffin and corn mummy with Osiris mask
Artist not stated in the record · 380–200 BCE

Scenes from the Life of Joseph
Pierre Reymond · mid-16th century

Gilded wax on a reconstructed body of ancient linen
Artist not stated in the record · 400–250 BCE

Pair of Ankle Shoes
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century–early 20th century

Mummy of Artemidora
Artist not stated in the record · 90–100 CE

Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Coffeepot (part of a service)
Meissen Manufactory · 1723–26
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. 613 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 15:21 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.