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. 20 shown for “Profile Face Inlay of King Akhenaten” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:21 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 of King Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Portrait of Louise King Cox
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1892

Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

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

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615

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

Henry IV
Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

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

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

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

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

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

Flowers of the Air, Illustration for Scribner's Magazine (XVII, No. 2, February 1895, p. 266)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · February 1895

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Sri Cakrasamvara and Vajravarahi
Artist not stated in the record · 16th-17th century

Shabti of Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Profile Head Inlay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE
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. 256 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. 2897103 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:21 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.