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 “Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Lion and Hare Composed of Ornamental Leaf-Work, from Neue-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen (New Designs for Ornaments in Gold)
Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel, German, active ca. 1660 – 1700 · 1698

Gold leaf from shabti of Neferseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Bodice panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Costume Armor in the Classical Style
Hallé · ca. 1788–90

Folding Knife with Gold Plated Silver Handle From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

Helmet (Sallet)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Frieze
Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915

Shabti and Coffin of the King's Son Wahneferhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Lincrusta-Walton
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1881–1882

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster awarded to Lt. Col. Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · August 8, 1972

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century

Bible
Artist not stated in the record · 1477 (printing); 1478 (binding)

Watch
Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650

Dagger with Sheath
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
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. 1114 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. 2968666 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 2026-09-02 15:26 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.