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 “Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sunk Relief Fragment with Part of Offering Inscription and Wadjet Eye
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Wall tile (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE
![Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9297_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Relief Fragment with Part of a Vertical Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy
Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Door in a garden wall
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Relief Fragment with Part of a Hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

Architectural fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375-1400
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. 69 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. 3141899 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:31 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.