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 “Openwork plaque with papyrus and pomegranates” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Openwork plaque with papyrus and pomegranates
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon
Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1875

Amulet in the shape of a plaque and with the depiction of a papyrus column
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Book of the Dead Papyrus with Chapters 100 and 129
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Ewer
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1894

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Secretary
Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Dome-shaped
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Textile
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · 1915

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500
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. 235 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. 1522237 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-29 00:08 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.