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. 16 shown for “Kneeling statue of Amenopetemhat holding the Hathor emblem” — 44 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kneeling statue of Amenopetemhat holding the Hathor emblem
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Kneeling winged figure holding a crown
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Statue of Senenmut Holding a Sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Three Men, One Kneeling and Two Bowing
Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Healing statue of Isis
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1587 – 1605

Scarab of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

Study for a Painting of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Infant Saint James Major or Saint Luis Gonzaga
Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808 · early 19th century

Design for a Painting: The Entombment of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1750

Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1889

Sketch of Charity, Faith, and Hope
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1880–95

God the Father and Angels
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Thetis observing Vulcan fabricating the arms of Achilles
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1800

Studies for a Kneeling Monk
Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · 1775–1800
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3093276 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 09:57 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.