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. 21 shown for “Scarab seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:54 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 seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–5th century BCE

Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1860

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Bristol-New York Government Packet Service
Artist not stated in the record · May 1711

Scarab with Inscription Referring to Osiris
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Membership Certificate, Society of Journeymen Cabinet-Makers
Artist not stated in the record · August 2, 1796

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Medal
Victor David Brenner, American, b. Lithuania, 1871 - 1924 · 1906

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Design in Berlin Wool Work
J. Bedford & Co., English · 1874

Cylinder seal and modern impression: human figure flanked by sphinxes, birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2350–2150 BCE

Two Bell Towers
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper with an animal offering before a seated deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1450 BCE

Design for Mantlepiece, from "Cheminées a la Modern"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Cylinder seal and modern impression: battle of the gods
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2350–2150 BCE

Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BC
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1691443 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:54 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.