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. 20 shown for “Model of a granary with scribe and overseer” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Model of a granary with scribe and overseer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1850 B.C.

Granaries, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25, 1890

Model of a Granary with Scribes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Dove Houses, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 21 and 24, 1890

Granary Tower
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–early 3rd century

Scribe Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Heriry
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1828

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Carpenter's scribe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Funerary Cone of the Overseer of the Double Granary Menkheperresonb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Granary of Prince Ruspoli in Cerveteri
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1795

Funerary Cone of the Royal Scribe Menkheperreseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Venus Admonishing Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Nikare with his Wife and Daughter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent signed by Toussaint Louverture
Artist not stated in the record · October 21, 1797

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

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 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. 122 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. 4064060 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 00:55 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.