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 five stems of a papyrus plant” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:04 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 five stems of a papyrus plant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon
Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1875

Composite Papyrus Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Tile
J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

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

Five chalices
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Five Medallion Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Scarab with Papyrus Motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Worsham-Rockefeller House
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · dated 707 AH/1308 CE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tile from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Designs for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Scarab Incised with Hieroglyph and Papyrus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1550 B.C.

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Tile with fish and lotus flowers in a canal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Scarab with Uraeus and Papyrus Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

Botanical Sketch, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–August 1857
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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 5947118 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 17:04 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.