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. 24 shown for “Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · probably 10th century

Triptych with the Mandylion
The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow · 1637

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1816

Inscribed Linen Sheet from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Upholstery fabric
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Forehead cloth
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

Black nightgown with lace bodice and pleated skirt
Unidentified · 1970s

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Djedptahefankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–945 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th century

Mummy bandage of Hepmeneh, born of Tasheritentaqeri, inscribed with text and vignette from the Book of the Dead
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Textile with cloth marks
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Sheet, linen mark, very fine spin, very fine weave
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Blue Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Fragment of garment with medallion and band
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Sense of Taste
Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th century

Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Yellow blouse with floral brocade and sheer raglan sleeves
Unidentified · 1970s - 1980s
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. 211 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3079197 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 22:42 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.