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. 12 shown for “Relief fragment with sandalled feet” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Relief fragment with sandalled feet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Fragment with royal feet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Bronze left foot with traces of sandal straps
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century A.D

Name Panels from the Inner Wall of Senwosret I's Pyramid Complex
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Nenfro tomb-slab fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–550 BCE

Icon Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1272

Adam
Tullio Lombardo · ca. 1490–95

Glass bowl fragment with erotic scenes
Artist not stated in the record · end of 1st century BCE–beginning of 1st century CE

Glass cameo fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Relief fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Fragmentary marble sarcophagus with scenes from the Oresteia
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well
Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80
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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 288698 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 11:43 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.