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 “Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare Flanked by Falcons” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare Flanked by Falcons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1833

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Two Falcons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London
John Cooke, English, acitve 18th c. · ca. 1750

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands, Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Flanked by Lotus Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare, Living, Flanked by Two Red Crowns
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1821

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Plate 2, "Decoration d'une Porte à placards à double ventaux"
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · ca. 1727

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Poetry, after Raphael Sanzio
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1776

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Decoration of the Two Vestibules in Hotel Roquelaure
Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Page Two from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Lord of the Two Lands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Title Page from "Second Licre Contenant Differens Desseins de Pendules Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravés par Huquier"
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare Above a Papyrus Thicket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761
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. 58 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. 3162622 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:49 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.