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 “Part of a sistrum” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Part of a sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Sistrum alfredensis
Artist not stated in the record

Sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum
Artist not stated in the record

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Vase After the Antique
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Hathor emblem from a sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Five chalices
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Part of Sheet 5 of a Drawing Book, Masks and Part of a Trophy
Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804 · ca. 1785

Torso of a Bodhisattva
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Design for a Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

Upper part of a female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Drawing: Study of a left hand holding a small disk
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Upper part of a naos sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–525 BCE

Door in a garden wall
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

View from Belalp, Switzerland, Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 28, 1868

Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Eight designs for altar mensae
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Bust of Hevajra
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Architecture and Figure Studies
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–90
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. 30362 matched · 24 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. 3855620 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-26 22:57 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.