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. 23 shown for “Kohl Tube in the Shape of a Papyrus Column” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kohl Tube in the Shape of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon
Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1875

Kohl Tube
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Frieze
Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

Tube for Eye Paint (Kohl) in the Shape of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Torricelli Tube
Pixii, Hippolyte

Composite Papyrus Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Ornamental woodwork detail
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

Kohl Tube Holder in the Form of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Kohl Tube
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Model for a Pulpit with Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Kohl Tube in the Form of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

IIE. SUITE DE VASES
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

Kohl Tube
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Design for a Monument Commemorating Systematization of Weights and Measures in France
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

Cosmetic set of Kohl Tube and Applicator, Razor, Tweezers, Whetstone, and Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Design for a Boat-Shaped Vessel, possibly intended as a Festival Float
Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546 · 1533

Kohl Tube in the form of a Palm Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Sepulchral monuments
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

Kohl tube and stick
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Design for Altar at Santo Spirito dei Napolitani (Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans), Rome, Italy
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1702

Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 332–200 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. 697 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483527 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:51 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.