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 “Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers
Artist not stated in the record · 664–200 BCE

Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Black hat with white feather hat band
Unidentified · 1970s-1980s

Amulet of cow-headed goddess with feathers atop disk and horns
Artist not stated in the record · 525–30 BCE

Cream hat with feather decoration
Unidentified · ca. 1960

Scarab with Sobek and Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Design for a Tapestry: Allegory of Africa
Gérard Audran, French, 1640–1703 · 1660-1680

Vulture head and double uraei with disk and horn crowns, from statue of a goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Lit à la Reine
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Lit en chaire à precher
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Coat of Arms with an Eagle
Artist not stated in the record · 1543

Attachment for the crown of an Osiris statue
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE
![Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1901-39-154rectoMFlynn.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right].
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Lit en dome retrousse a la romaine vu de face.
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Relief of a Female Deity's Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Lit à 4 colonnes surmonte d’un baldaquin a 3 dossiers vu de face
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Two Designs for Trophies
Roubiliac, French, active 18th century · 18th 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. 41 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. 1580197 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 10:43 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.