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 “Fragmentary Head of a King” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragmentary Head of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE

Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 1874

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 1866

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Kourt King croquet game set mallets from Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE
![Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9314_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE
![Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9297_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Head of Ahmose I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Kourt King croquet game set stakes from Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Kourt King croquet game set caddy from Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

King
Nicola Ingaldi · second half 18th century
Eremochloa kingii S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · May 1868

Senwosret III as a Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Acourtia wrightii (A. Gray) Reveal & R.M. King
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1931

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Juncus subcaudatus (Engelm. ex A. Gray) Coville & S.F. Blake
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1941
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. 1720 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. 3895881 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-28 16:30 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.