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 from around the false door in the tomb of Bakenrenef, 3 sections” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:26 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 from around the false door in the tomb of Bakenrenef, 3 sections
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Design for Doors
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

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

Elevation of Salon Chimney Wall
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French, 1727 – 1793 · ca. 1780

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Design for a casino
Artist not stated in the record · 1785

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Section of a Vestibule
Artist not stated in the record · 1790

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Four gateways
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe
Artist not stated in the record · 1946-1954

Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy
Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1699–1700

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Design for a Salon Entrance
Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1800

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Mt. Hor, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 23, 1868

Part of a Ceiling from the Tomb of Bakenrenef
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1796

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Tomb jar
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd 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. 497 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. 7483529 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 23:26 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.