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 “Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche” — 57 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Title Page
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

"Blackpool"
Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

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

Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Savoyards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Pair-case watch with alarm
Adam Roumeau · probably ca. 1695

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1810

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial
Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Fantastical Garden with Musicians
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Tomb Designs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Drawing
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–86

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

"Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Peleg K. Dunham (1794–1822)
William Rose Sr., 1783–1856 · 1817

Drawing
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–86

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Snail Shell
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 306000 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 23:25 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.