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 “Stamp seal (scarab) with anthropomorphic figure” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 10:29 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 (scarab) with anthropomorphic figure
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–early 7th century BCE or later

Ornamental Design
Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580 · ca. 1550

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Special passport for William Callahan
Artist not stated in the record · 1943

Scarab with Figure of Winged Seth-Baal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Figure Sketches, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1845

Stamp seal (scarab) with two-figure contest scene (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Stamp seal (scarab) with two-figure contest scene
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–7th century BCE

Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

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

Stamp seal (scarab) with animal
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE or later

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

Stamp seal (scarab) with animal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–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. 265 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 285901 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 2026-09-09 10:29 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.