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 “Menat fragment, Apries” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Menat fragment, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Cenchrus alopecuroides Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1834

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 664–570 BCE

Echinops graecus Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1958

Fragment of a Royal Head, Probably Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Cerastium arvense L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1875

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Mentha arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1913

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Potentilla sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1835

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus abieticola
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1893

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Mikania iltisii R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Xyris subulata Ruiz & Pav.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Festuca herrerae Davidse
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Neomirandea biflora R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Pentacalia firmipes (Greenm.) Cuatrec.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Menat fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 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. 87 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. 39082 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 2026-09-05 01:08 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.