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. 12 shown for “High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God
Maya artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Scepter with profile figures
Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Whistle with the Maize God emerging from a flower
Maya artist(s) · 600–900 CE

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

Storm God vessel
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 1–150 CE

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 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. 40 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:12 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.