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 “Inlay, ankh with was scepters” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 00:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inlay, ankh with was scepters
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

Inlay, ankh with was scepters
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Inlay, ankh, was scepters
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615

Inlay fragment, ankh and was scepters
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern. Mended with lacquer
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Scepter for Papal Ceremonies
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Amulet with an Ankh and Two Was Scepters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Ankh, djed, was on neb basket
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Scarab Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

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

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE
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. 42 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. 428997 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-30 00:09 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.