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 “Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Goblet Inscribed with the Names of King Amenhotep IV and Queen Nefertiti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Chairs
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1785–1790

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Sketches of Cattle, Irvington
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · September 1876

Funerary Figure of Isis, Singer of the Aten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Advertisement for "Tetley's Teas"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Inscribed side of back pillar from head of Akhenaten in blue crown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Pedestal and base of a pillar in a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Pillar perhaps attached to statue, name of Akhenaten, epithets of Aten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Pair of Salvers
Edward Barrett, Irish, active 1698 – 1722 · 1708–09

Back pillar of Torso with Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Old Warrior
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Back pillar of Torso with titles and cartouche of Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Portrait of Mlle. Delaporte
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Gate in the wall of a park, with alternate suggestions
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1792–1794

Torso of Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Architectural Details and Figure Study
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1760–80

Part of a (back?) pillar or stela with the first cartouche of the Aten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Three capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800
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. 230 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. 7473488 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 23:29 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.