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 “Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king” — 64 records examined, 27 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.
Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Dedication Page
Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Dedication Page
Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Dedication Page
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

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

Dedication page
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · 1662

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

Album of Prints: Ceilings Designed by Carlo Maria Pozzi
Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

Shrine sistrum of King Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

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

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Dedication page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Dedication
Simon Julien, French, 1735 - 1800 · 1777

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Vase After the Antique
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Title Page of "Histoire militaire de Flandre depuis l'Anée 1690, jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement"
I. Oger, French, active 18th c. · 1756

Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Dedication Letter
Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sheet music for the “Postal March and Two Step”
Howley, Haviland and Dresser · 1902
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. 1412 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. 2362349 matched · 40 examined · 26 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.