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. 12 shown for “Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Part of the shrine of Queen Henhenet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

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

Reliquary Shrine
Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Fragment of a Queen's Face
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

The Adoration of the Magi
Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd–early 3rd century CE
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. 1485 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:15 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.