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 an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 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 an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Study of man, woman and child heads, sitting child
Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian, 1537 - 1591 · ca. 1570

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Head of an Elderly Bearded Man
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Head of an Elderly Bearded Man
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Head of an Old Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1632

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660-1670

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

The Head of an Old Monk and the Head of a Child
Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749 · ca. 1710

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Decoration of a Frieze
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th-19th century

Estate Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sketches for the Representation of an Eagle Over a Thunderbolt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810
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. 619 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. 3008612 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 06:11 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.