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 “Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864
Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876 · 1864

Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Kourt King croquet game set mallets from Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

Model Stone Rocker from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Carpenter's Chisel from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Inscribed Chisel From Foundation Deposit 2 of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Brick Mold from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 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. 62 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. 876433 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 2026-09-02 06:51 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.