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 With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:59 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 With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Recto: Fountain Design with Oceanus and the River Gods Arno and Tiber
Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1541– ca. 1590 · ca. 1570

Statue of the God Ptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1720–30

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Family register sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1832

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Statuette of an ancestral king
Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE

Fragment of a garment with embroidered inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 870–892

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Mahdi flag
Artist not stated in the record · 1882-1885

Marble statue of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1773

Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1833

Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C. ?

Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards
Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

Statue of Sakhmet, "Lady of the Mound-Above-Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Design for an Easter Sepulchre
Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810 · ca. 1757
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. 1005 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7484566 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 06:59 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.