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 “Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Limestone fragment of a lyre or throne
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1801

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Saint in Ecstacy, After Franceschini; Classicized Version of Vision of St. Catherine of Vigri, Study after Franceschini
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Textile
David Richards, British · ca. 1780

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Homer
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca.1600

Head of Akhenaten in the blue crown, sign traces at nape of neck
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Design for a Brooch or Earring in Shape of a Lyre
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Marble and limestone statue of an attendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or 3rd century BCE

Trophy Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777–79

Head of Tutankhamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Wire frame, lyre in crescent on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Artist's Sketches of Senenmut, Sketch of Small Rodent on Opposite Side
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Wire frame, lyre in crescent on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

Wire frame, lyre, small
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Wire frame, lyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940
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. 347 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3889931 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 15:42 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.