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. 23 shown for “Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 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 of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Fragment of an inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun
Artist not stated in the record · 2005

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Tsuba
Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese · 1830–43

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Bass guitar used by Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & the Gang
Artist not stated in the record · 1976-1978

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Tsuba
Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754 · early 18th century

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Portable desk
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit
Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Linchpin on the form of a figure and dragon head
Artist not stated in the record · 122-125

Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1570–80

Tsuba
Isobe Isshu, Japanese · late 19th century

Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Mirror with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Inlay in the form of the Horus falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Folding Knife (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Inlay in the form of the Horus falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century 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. 553 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. 3138108 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:22 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.