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. 15 shown for “Stamp seal (bifacial scaraboid) with animals” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stamp seal (bifacial scaraboid) with animals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–7th century BCE

Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Stamp seal (bifacial scaraboid) with animal and divine symbol
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–7th century BCE

Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Carnelian scaraboid seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Letter written to William V. Brady
Artist not stated in the record · January 25, 1851

Chalcedony scaraboid seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Seal Amulet in the Shape of a Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–7th century BCE

Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animals
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animals
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animals
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–7th century 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. 171 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. 1403073 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:51 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.