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. 18 shown for “Shrine sistrum of King Apries” — 46 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shrine sistrum of King Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Mikania iltisii R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Neomirandea biflora R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2291 BCE

Sistrum alfredensis
Artist not stated in the record

Statue of a goddess, probably Nehemetaway or Nebethetepet
Artist not stated in the record · 550–300 BCE

Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum
Artist not stated in the record

Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Cenchrus alopecuroides Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1834

Menat with royal name Wahibre
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Echinops graecus Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1958

Cerastium arvense L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1875

Mentha arvensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1913

Potentilla sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1835

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus abieticola
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1893

Votive Tabernacle Shrine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Xyris subulata Ruiz & Pav.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1984 to 26 Mar 1984
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2890477 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 01:14 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.