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. 10 shown for “Pyramidion of Iufaa” — 45 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pyramidion of Iufaa
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Flag of the First Republic of Haiti
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle") inscribed for the God's Father Amenhotep, son of the God's Father Iufaa
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Board game
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Stela of Ameny and his Wife Inet-Hapy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1396 BCE

Album of Prints: Designs for the Carriage of the Duke of Ossuna by Bernard Picart
Bernard Picart, 1673–1733 · 1714
Gilt Demitasse Spoon, Part of Set of Ten
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

Pink open crown hat with flower decoration
Unidentified · 1950s-1960s

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
Unidentified · 1868
Livre Curieux et Utile pour Les Sçavans, et Artists. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres, Simples, doubles et triples.
Nicolas Verien, French, active 1685 – 1724 · 1685
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2858393 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 16:36 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.