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. 16 shown for “Sistrum with the Name of King Amasis” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 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 the Name of King Amasis
Artist not stated in the record · 570–526 BCE

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

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Alsophila manniana (Hook.) R.M. Tryon
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1903

Fragment of Sistrum Handle with the name of Amasis
Artist not stated in the record · 570–526 BCE

Sistrum alfredensis
Artist not stated in the record

Fragment of Sistrum Handle of Amasis
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Sistrum ferrugineum rubidum
Artist not stated in the record

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

Fragment of Sistrum Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

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

Stela of King Raneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2880 BCE

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

Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk
Nina de Garis Davies · 1914; original ca. 1386–1347 BCE
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. 1434 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7473571 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:44 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.