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. 15 shown for “Large Ointment Jar with Lid” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Large Ointment Jar with Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Ung: Basilicon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Ung: Santalum
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Ointment Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Vng. Alaba strin
Artist not stated in the record · 1600 - 1699

Ointment jar with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Ointment Jar with Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Ointment Jar of Sithathoryunet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Ointment jar of Sithathoryunet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Ointment jar and lid naming Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Inscribed shoulder jar with cartouche of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Bowl used as lid
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–late 2nd century BCE

Libation jar with with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Bottle and lid naming Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 273876 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:00 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.