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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 the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:46 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 tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

The Interior of a Textile Factory
Unknown · 1720–50

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

Hall Decoration, Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs, for the Assemblee des Notables
Pierre-Adrien Paris, French, 1741 – 1819 · 1786

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Panelling of the Assembly Room in Palais Bourbon
Jacques Gabriel, 1667–1742 · ca. 1727

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux
Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

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

Drawing
Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

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

Sepulcher with Death Seated and Crowned
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1779–84

West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2250 BCE

View of the Porta Aurea, Palace of Diocletian, Split
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza
Gaetano Frizzati, Italian · 1807

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Design for a loggia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–75

Relief from around the false door in the tomb of Bakenrenef, 3 sections
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Design for Wall Niche with a Fountain
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

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

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

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

Plan et Coupe d'un Sallon au bout d'une Gallerie
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774
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. 579 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. 3331398 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 01:46 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.