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 “Jasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile” — 47 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Dinner Plate with the Arms of Ker-Martin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on a lotus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

America
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Jasper intaglio: The Three Graces
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

America
Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756 · 1717

Red jasper ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1779

Serpentine intaglio: Radiate lion-headed god
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Painting, The Bon Homme Richard and HMS Serapis
Buttersworth, Thomas · ca 1830

Jasper intaglio: Harcoprates seated on a lotus flower
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779
Paris Mint · 1779

Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on lotus in papyrus boat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779
Paris Mint · 1779

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779
Paris Mint · 1779

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy die)
Paris Mint · 1779

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779
Paris Mint · 1779

John Paul Jones, Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis, United States, 1779 (Silvered electrotype taken from an original matrix)
Artist not stated in the record · 1779
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 984444 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 10:43 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.