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 corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other” — 56 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:37 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 corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Coat-of-Arms
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Hermaphrodite
Giovanni Francesco Susini · 1639

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

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

Cupids and Scroll Work
Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919 · ca. 1896

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Savoyards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Hampton Aten & Co. Commission Merchants
unknown · 1859 or before

Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1632–35

Charleston slave badge from 1815 for Mechanic No. 56 named Robert Cheevers
John Joseph Lafar, American, 1784 - 1849 · 1815

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

George III sterling silver coffee pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · 1557

Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

The French Comedians
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1720

"Feu"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

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

"Kai Khusrau Crosses the Sea", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1610

Pan-American Exposition
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1901
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 6161553 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 20:37 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.