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. 11 shown for “Royal vessel of the reign of Pepi II” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Royal vessel of the reign of Pepi II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2289–2255 BCE

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Decree of Pepi II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Model Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th 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. 691 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:15 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.