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. 19 shown for “Jar sealing impressed with name of Queen Neithhotep” — 58 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar sealing impressed with name of Queen Neithhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100 B.C.

Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1860

Fragmentary Seal Impression from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Cream pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Queen honeybee cage
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1990s

Sealed Jar from the Tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Tea ceremony water jar
Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

Clay jar sealing Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Clay jar sealing Clay jar sealing impressed with name of Khasekhemwy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Hypleurochilus loxias Jordan & Seale
Artist not stated in the record · 1901

Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Jar sealing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650 B.C.

Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th 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. 18 matched · 18 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. 7474422 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 22:50 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.