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. 16 shown for “Profile Face Inlay” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Profile face inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 570–30 BCE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

Profile face inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 570–30 BCE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615

Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Tsuba
Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754 · early 18th century

Profile Face Inlay of King Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

Profile Face Inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE

Inlay profile head
Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Inlay profile head
Artist not stated in the record · 500–30 BCE

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 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. 1130 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. 127423 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:19 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.