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 “Hippopotamus-Head Design Amulet Inscribed With Four Linked Ibex Heads.” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:38 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.

Hippopotamus-Head Design Amulet Inscribed With Four Linked Ibex Heads.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2150–2040 B.C.

Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Saints Michael and Francis
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

The Nativity
Puccio di Simone · ca. 1350

The Dead Christ with Angels
Edouard Manet · 1864

Phylactery (tefillin)
Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

Snuffbox with Pastoral Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765
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. 45 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. 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 08:38 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.