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 “Panel from beneath feet of a cartonnage, with scorpions on soles” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Panel from beneath feet of a cartonnage, with scorpions on soles
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century BCE–1st century CE

Altar of Colored Marbles,
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

Foot covering from a mummy, with scorpions on soles
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century BCE–1st century CE

Snuff Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Black cotton bathing shoes with white laces
Unidentified · ca. 1910

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Section of an Ornamental Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Left gold heeled sandal with ankle strap
Unidentified · ca. 1975

Palm Column of Sahure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE
!["Les Francais en Egypte" [French in Egypt], by Jean-Julien Deltil, 1791 – 1863](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-125411_01.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
"Les Francais en Egypte" [French in Egypt]
Jean-Julien Deltil, 1791 – 1863 · ca. 1814

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Sketches
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Worn Shoe Sole
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Alesis HR-16 drum machine used by Prince Paul
Artist not stated in the record · 1988

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Black platform ankle boots worn by Bootsy Collins
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1990

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Right teal and purple boot with purple laces
Artist not stated in the record · 1980s - 1990s

Samson and Delilah
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528–30

Design for an Entrance Wall of a Dressing Room
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1810
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. 335 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 4048979 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 19:34 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.