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 partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:16 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 partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–30 BCE

Desigsn for Embroidered or Woven Floral Motifs of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Finished and Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

Unfinished Statuette
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1980–1975 B. C.

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Statuette of Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1504 BCE

Design for a Woven Fabric, Unfinished Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

Silene regia Sims
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1934

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Silene virginica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1935

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE
![Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche], by Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9E1A686C92732-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche]
Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829 · 1810 or 1818

Limestone statuette of a lion
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Fragment and ornaments
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Silene latifolia Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1953

Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 310–30 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Head of Akhenaten in the blue crown, sign traces at nape of neck
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna
Unknown · 1650–75
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. 377 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. 3874615 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 10:16 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.