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 “Fragment of a Vase Depicting Berenike II” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 04:22 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.

Fragment of a Vase Depicting Berenike II
Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Vase fragment depicting Berenike II
Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Berenike II
Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Fragment of a Vase Depicting Arsinoe II
Artist not stated in the record · 278–270 BCE

Handle fragment (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 100–300 CE

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Tile depicting Foreigners
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile Inlay depicting a Wig
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile depicting a Syrian from the step of a dais
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2020–2000 B.C.
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. 563 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 2026-08-30 04:22 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.