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 “Shoulder fragment of a figural tile, with the cartouche of Ramesses III” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shoulder fragment of a figural tile, with the cartouche of Ramesses III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

George III silver sugar sifter ladle
Artist not stated in the record · 1815

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

George III sterling silver coffee pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Ramesses IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Ramesses IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1166–1158 BCE

Tile panel composed of six square tiles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Design for the Frame of the Portrait of Charles III, King of Spain
Johann Esaias Nilson, German, 1721 - 1788 · 1759

Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Designs for Two Vertical Panels
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738 and 1745

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Tile with the image of Bes from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725
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. 85 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. 3986738 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-04 21:50 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.