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 “Tile with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tile with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois
Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892 · 1891-1892

Tile with a fragment from a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile from a Mihrab (Prayer Niche)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Stage Design: Palace Entrance with Arch
Giovanni Antonio Galliari, 1718 - 1783 · ca. 1750

Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Tile with a bound Nubian from the the side of a dais
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II
Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II, Torso of a Mesopotamian or Syrian Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

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

Shabti of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II
Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Design for Sofa and Mirror, Portrait Room, Royal Palace; Warsaw, Poland
Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795 · ca. 1766

Tile depicting a Syrian from the step of a dais
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Fragment
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Fragment
Duplan Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA · 1914–1918

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Fragment of an underglaze cobalt-blue-painted wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century (?)
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. 4532 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. 4059460 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 06:38 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.