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. 18 shown for “Funerary Cone of the Steward of the King Tjata” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:49 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 the Steward of the King Tjata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup
Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

Cone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Horn speaker used as part of a DJ setup
Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

Funerary Cone of the Chief Steward of the King Meryre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Orthocarpus imbricatus Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1957

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

Designs for Woven Paisley
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–40

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Tweeter speakers used as part of a DJ setup
Artist not stated in the record · 1990s

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

Wire frame, wreath on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Funerary Cone of the Festival Leader of Amun Tjata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

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

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

Funerary Cone of the Steward Padihorresnet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Funerary Cone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–525 BCE

Funerary Cone of the Steward Khonsu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE
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. 849 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. 3017472 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 11:49 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.