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. 19 shown for “Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:23 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 the Palace of Apries in Memphis
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Design for a Palace Gate
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–30

Arrow point, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Elevation of a Palace
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790-1800

Arrow point, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Possible Design for Relief; Scene in Circle, Ornaments in Corners
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

Arrow point, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

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

Arrow point, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Baseball cap from the Memphis Red Sox
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1945

Arrow point, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Section of wall, bedroom of Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France
Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

Arrow point, Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Section of wall, Gallery Francis I, Palace of Fontainebleau, France
Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Palace
Unidentified artist

Menat necklace from Malqata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast
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. 674 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. 7483507 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:23 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.