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. 12 shown for “Tile with papyrus plant” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

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

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

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

Papyrus fragment with lines from Homer's Odyssey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 285–250 BCE

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

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

Scarab with Papryus Plant Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

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

Scarab inscribed with Plant Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Papyrus column amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–30 BCE

Scarab with Papyrus Motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.
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. 118 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 17:03 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.