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 a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:30 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 a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Mourning sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768"
Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Projet d'un Tombeau fait pour Mr. le President de la * * * * * à Dijon en 1733 (Design for a Tomb for President * * * * * in Dijon in 1733), plate 99, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

'Otua fefine (deity figure)
Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

Le Tombeau de Voltaire
Dubern & Cie. · ca. 1785

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Sepulchral Monument to a Hero
Unknown, Italian · 1815–30

Marble female figure
Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Elevation of a Tomb
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Statuette of a female
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Tomb Designs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Lupona (royal seat)
Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

Mourning Over the Dead Christ
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

Marble female figure
Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869
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. 21097 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 4389374 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 03:30 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.