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. 22 shown for “Fragment from a Coptic Hanging” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment from a Coptic Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Ostrakon with a Letter from Ananias to Priests
Artist not stated in the record · 600

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 500–800

Fragment of a Stela
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Fragment of a Female Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Fragment of a Male Torso with a Tree Trunk
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Papyrus Fragments of the Canon Tables
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Papyrus Fragments with Seth on Mount Sinai
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Fragment of tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420–30

Fragment of bed hanging
Clerambault, Alençon, France, 1811–1847 · 1796–1810

Insert from a Coptic Garment
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Fragment of Wall Hanging with confronted cocks and running dogs
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–9th century

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE
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. 744 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. 1972276 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:36 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.