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. 12 shown for “Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Vase
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1909–10

"Blackpool"
Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

Advertisement for the "National Union of the United Brewery Workmen"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Advertisement for "Atlas Ready Mixed Paint"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright
R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957

Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Four Studies of Soldiers' Heads
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1863–64

Advertisement for "Ludens Menthol Cough Drops"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Design for an Embroidered Frontal
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

Palazzo Quirinale, Rome;
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484570 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 06:11 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.