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 with Line Drawing of Theban Triad” — 62 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:48 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 with Line Drawing of Theban Triad
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

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

Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

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

Vase
Artus Van Briggle, American, 1869 – 1904 · 1903

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

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Hieratic ostracon
Artist not stated in the record · later than 1300–1080 BCE

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

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

Plinth with four repeat images of Buddhist triads
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

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

Floral field and border
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1815

Ostracon with liliform capital
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Dracophyllum verticillatum Labill.
Artist not stated in the record · 1861

Ostracon with liliform capital
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Design for the Elevation of a Public Building
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Ostracon Depicting the God Sobek
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Design for Wallpaper or Textile of Daisy-Type Flower with Repeat
Unknown · ca. 1860

Ostracon with sketch of a harpist
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Ostracon with sketch of a calf
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 22 matched · 22 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. 2909914 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 01:48 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.