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 “Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown
Artist not stated in the record · mid-8th century BCE

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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–450 CE

King of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Model of a Porch and Garden
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Audelco best musical production award for Champeen awarded to Melvin Van Peebles
Artist not stated in the record · November 21, 1983

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist
Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Red straw hat with navy and white ribbon
Unidentified · 1970s - 1980s

Pair of candlesticks
Jacques Demé · 1690–91

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

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

Adoration of the Magi
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–50

"Alhambra" vase with lid
Crown Derby · 1877–90

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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Frieze
M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834 · 1915

Head of a king in the red crown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–545 BCE

Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap worn by Willie Stargell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1979

"Alhambra" vase with lid
Crown Derby · 1880s

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Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 862 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. 7483426 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 06:11 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.