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. 24 shown for “Fragment of a Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:00 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 of a Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1811

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

L’HISTOIRE
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1720

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Jeremiah Draper's Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Fragments in Forum, Rome
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Apotheosis of Franklin
Artist not stated in the record · 1780s

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Apotheosis of Franklin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Apotheosis of Franklin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810
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. 1266 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3887775 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:00 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.