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 “Raised relief fragment depicting a hieroglyph” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Raised relief fragment depicting a hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

Raised relief fragment with a hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables
Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819 · 1786

Relief showing procession of offering bearers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Barbados Pineapple Penny
John Milton, British, 1759 - 1805 · 1788

Raised relief fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Designs After Architecture
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Square fragment: showing Buddhist procession
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Silver badge for George Washington Perkins of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769
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. 823 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. 1821887 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 2026-08-31 02:16 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.