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. 20 shown for “Ritual Implement Dedicated by a King Senwosret to Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II” — 51 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ritual Implement Dedicated by a King Senwosret to Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1840 B.C.

Dedication page
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · 1662

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement"
I. Oger, French, active 18th c. · 1756

Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Dedication Page
Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

Relief fragments from an elaborate false doorway
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Project for Tapestry Dedicated to Farm Life
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1780–95

Model of a procession of offering bearers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Dedication Page
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

Relief Fragment with Part of a Vertical Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Lee Arnett Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Album of Prints: Ceilings Designed by Carlo Maria Pozzi
Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Dedication Page
Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2519634 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:14 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.