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 “Ostracon inscribed with list of identity marks” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ostracon inscribed with list of identity marks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Daniel Boone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Ostracon inscribed with identity marks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1137–1084 BCE

Coat-of-Arms
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Ostracon inscribed with identity marks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1137–1084 BCE

Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

Ostracon with Workmen's Identity Marks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Hieroglyph ostracon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1347 BCE

Native American Motifs
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

Ostracon inscribed with identity marks and the name of female family member
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1154 BCE

Advertisement for "Ludens Menthol Cough Drops"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Hieratic ostracon with a list of workmen's names
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Advertisement for "Tetley's Teas"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Hieratic ostracon with short list in red and black
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Advertisement for "England's Glory Matches, S.J. Moreland & Sons"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Hieratic Ostracon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Bollinger Champagne Crate
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · late 19th century

Hieratic Ostracon Recording a Royal Name and a List of Names
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1146 BCE

Roundsman chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · early 1880s

Hieratic ostracon with account
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Title page: "Bearing the Cross"
S. A. Grant · ca. 1861

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

British Footbal Player, inscribed "Saved"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 412 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. 2914109 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 03:41 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.