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 “Plaque or lid with a bull's head” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:15 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.

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Plaque or lid with a bull's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Head of a Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Casket with Erotes and Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Jar and Lid Decorated with a Frog
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Jug and Lid with the Head of a Bull or Calf
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Ostracon with fighting bulls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Quiver with Eleven Crossbow Bolts
Artist not stated in the record · quiver, probably early 16th century; bolts, 14th–16th 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. 778 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 06:15 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.