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. 23 shown for “Foundation Deposit Mat” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Foundation Deposit Mat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Samples from Malmaison
Augustin François André Picot, French · 1804

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Mat From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

Bundle of Model Mats from the Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Tomb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Studies after Lunettes by
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Foundation Deposit Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

Foundation Deposit Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Virtue Paying Homage at the Tomb of Washington
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Foundation Deposit Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Foundation Deposit Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Foundation Deposit Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Foundation Deposit Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE
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. 724 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 20696 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 08:58 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.