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Images / art

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 “Relief Depicting Personified Estates from the Tomb of Akhtihotep” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:08 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Relief Depicting Personified Estates from the Tomb of Akhtihotep

Relief Depicting Personified Estates from the Tomb of Akhtihotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2551 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Cartoon for Printed Cotton: Les Quatre Elements, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Study for a Cartoon for Printed Cotton: Les Quatre Elements

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Title Page

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner of niche from the tomb of Akhtihotep

Corner of niche from the tomb of Akhtihotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2551 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief depicting the head of a scribe

Relief depicting the head of a scribe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C. or ca. 2000–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Printed Cotton Textile: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Élements], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Cotton Textile: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Élements]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Plate Depicting the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun

Charles K. Wilkinson · 1928; original ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Depicting Meryneith Inspecting His Stables and Ships Unloading Merchandise, from his tomb at Saqqara

Relief Depicting Meryneith Inspecting His Stables and Ships Unloading Merchandise, from his tomb at Saqqara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Arts Mourning at the Tomb of Raphael, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Arts Mourning at the Tomb of Raphael

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 326 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. 3075514 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-26 16:08 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.