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 “Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Funerary Cone of a Scribe of the Offering Table and Butler Named Nebamun.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1347 BCE

Wire frame, basket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 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

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Table Design with Vases
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

The Ku-Klux Spirit in Congress / Geneva Award
Artist not stated in the record · 1871 and 1873

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Offering to Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

A genre scene
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1725–50

Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1823

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Sidewall and border
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Wire frame, flat basket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Commemorative head
Akan artist · Late 17th-early 18th century

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Wire frame, wreath on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962
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. 79 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. 7474391 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 2026-08-27 22:38 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.