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 “Lion-shaped stamp seal with name of Amenemhat II” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lion-shaped stamp seal with name of Amenemhat II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1859–1813 B.C.

Silver label for rum decanter
Artist not stated in the record · 1802

Cylinder seal with the name of Amenemhat II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1550 B.C.

Design for a Silver Coffee Urn
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

Cylinder seal with name of Amenemhat II and that of princess Khenemetneferhedjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1840 B.C.

Special passport for William Callahan
Artist not stated in the record · 1943

Dish Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1479 BCE

Covered Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1748

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

George III silver sugar tongs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

George III sterling silver sugar tongs
Artist not stated in the record · 1795

Scarab with Lion-headed Goddess Protecting Maatkare
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Elevation of a Sauce Boat
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1810

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare Over a Papyrus Thicket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

American Postage Meter Company machine head
American Postage Meter Company · 1912

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare Over a Papyrus Thicket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Grapevine Basket
Ira Blount · late 20th Century

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

George III sterling silver coffee pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland
Thomas Hudson Jones, American, 1892 - 1969 · ca. 1942

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Women's Army Corps uniform worn by Private First Class Ara Belle Brown Jennings
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
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 · 2 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. 107 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 17:44 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.