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. 20 shown for “Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple” — 64 records examined, 32 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 Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Surveyor's Stakes
White, Peregrine · 1775-1825

Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple
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

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

Jeanne d'Arc
Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817

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

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

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

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

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

Model, Lunar Lander, Surveyor, 1/5 Scale
Hughes Aircraft Co.

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

The Execution by Gunpowder of Hendrik Eemkens in 1562 in Utrecht, design for illustration in T.J. van Bragt, "Het bloedig tooneel, of Martelaers spiegel der doopsgesinde of weereloose christenen (The Mirror of Martyrs), 1685.
Jan Luyken, Dutch, 1649 - 1712 · 1683-1685

Mesekhtyu Instrument from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1458 BCE

Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1776

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

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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

Carpenter's Chisel 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. 261 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. 2240911 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 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.