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. 23 shown for “Scarab with Representation of a Falcon” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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 Representation of a Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Hare Hunt with Falcons
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1599

Scarab with the Representation of a Falcon and Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB)
![Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-3C77C65DC95F2-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596-99

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1220

Striding Soldier
Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656 · 1620–40

Falcon
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

A Hunt Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Falcon's hood
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Bird Hunt with Falcons
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Bird Hunting
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Cravat end
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Falcon statue serving as a sarcophagus for a sacred animal
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

The Hunt, Personified by Diana
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1594–1596

Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

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

Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Purse with Egyptian ornament
Sloan & Company · ca. 1880
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. 3852 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 3887206 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 04:24 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.