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. 13 shown for “Fragmentary gaming board: game of 58 holes” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 12:42 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 gaming board: game of 58 holes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

Wessmann Game Counter, U.S. Patent Office Model
Wessmann, Charles B. · 1878

Fragmentary gaming board: game of 58 holes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

Game of Hounds and Jackals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Game Box for Playing Senet and Twenty Squares
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE

Game Pieces
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Small Hounds & Jackals Game Board
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Game Board
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
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Chess Piece, King
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Chess Piece, King
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

The Lamentation
Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1582

Chess set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Mirror with game board design and animals of the four directions
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century
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. 115 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. 2881362 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 12:42 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.