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 Representing the Cartouche of Seti II” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 16:48 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 Representing the Cartouche of Seti II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Scarab of Seti II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Wall Tile with the Cartouche of Seti II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Africa
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Garden
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Plaque inlaid with Cartouche of Seti II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Asia
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Liberal Arts
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

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

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of America
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Tile Inlay of a Torso
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Representing the Country of China
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Tile Inlay depicting a Wig
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Silver label for rum decanter
Artist not stated in the record · 1802

Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Four Cartouche Designs
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca. 1690

Fragment of tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

L'Ouie
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Captives of Non-Semitic Northern Peoples
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

La Vüe
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89
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. 187 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2995832 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 16:48 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.