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 “Statue of Tjeteti in middle age” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Statue of Tjeteti in middle age
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 BCE

Cavalry officers at a bridge in a town
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Column Statue of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Portrait of Ferdinando Cornacchia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Statue of the God Ptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Portrait of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Susanna Mayrin of Augsburg
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680-1700

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus
Artist not stated in the record · 251–253 CE

Portrait of a Cardinal
Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1640

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580-1600

Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–17

Portrait of Guilielmo Caesarino
Artist not stated in the record · 1695

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Portrait of Friedrich Ferdinand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Portrait of Euphemo Bathio
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

Marble statue of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Portrait of an Unknown Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–1850

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Portrait of Marquis Niccola Santagelo
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1870
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. 3278 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. 7483507 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 03:27 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.