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 with remains of hieroglyphs” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:18 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 with remains of hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Raised Relief Fragment with Fragmentary Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

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

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

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

Chicago Stock Exchange
Louis Henry Sullivan, American, 1856–1924 · 1893–94

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Tapestry fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh
Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Ewer and Basin
Gottlieb Menzel, German, 1676 – 1757 · ca. 1730

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 565 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. 2905060 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 02:18 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.