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. 23 shown for “Stela of Senu” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stela of Senu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Stela of Senu Adoring Osiris
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

Stela
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Lepraria sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

Stela
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Phyllopsora sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

Stela
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1386 BCE

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

Stela
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Chiodecton sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Trichostomum portoricense H.A. Crum & Steere
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

Stela of Aafenmut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Plum Garden, Kamata (Kamata no Umezono) From the Series One hundred Views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

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

Flag of the First Republic of Haiti
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Votive stela of Userhat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1300 BCE

Board game
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
Donation Stela of Shebitqo
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 708–705 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. 385 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. 2858407 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:57 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.