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 “Seated Statue of King Senwosret I” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated Statue of King Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Seated kingly figure
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

King Clovis I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

King David
Bicchierari, Antonio, Italian, 1706 - 1751 · 1750–66

King Clothar I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1795

Senwosret III as a Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

25c Statue of Kamehameha I design record
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Study of a Seated Woman (Queen Isabella I of Spain)
Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Relief showing procession of offering bearers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Queen Esther and Ahasuerus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770
Ritual Scene with Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

25c Statue of Kamehameha I photograph model
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Kalakaua I
Unidentified Artist · c. 1875

Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, reworked, reinscribed by Merneptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Napoleon Bonaparte
Auguste G. L. Boucher-Desnoyers, 1779 - 1857 · n.d.a.

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Sketch of a Girl with a Frog
Louise Howland King Cox, American, 1865–1945 · ca. 1895–1910

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Tableau Allégorique, pour L’Année Jubilaire du Regne de Louis Le Bien-Aimé
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1766

Face of Senwosret III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

5c Statue of Kamehameha I die proof
American Bank Note Company · 1894
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. 540 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3093011 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-26 20:53 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.