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. 12 shown for “Statue of man hoeing from tomb of Tjeteti” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Statue of man hoeing from tomb of Tjeteti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 BCE

Striding Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2465 BCE

Statue of Tjeteti as a young man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 BCE

Statue of Tjeteti in middle age
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 BCE

Statuette of Huwebenef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a donkey and rider
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Statuette of man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Seated Statue of the Nomarch Idu II of Dendera
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Pair Statue of Neferkhawet and Rennefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Bust of a Naophorous Statue
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 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. 74 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:04 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.