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. 23 shown for “Tube for Eye Paint (Kohl) in the Shape of a Papyrus Column” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tube for Eye Paint (Kohl) in the Shape of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Photographic postcard of Daniel Hendricks in Masonic regalia
Artist not stated in the record · early 1920s

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

Stage Design, Egyptian Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

Kohl Tube Holder in the Form of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

The elevation of a tower-like structure for a firework at the feast of St. Rosalia in Palermo
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

Kohl Tube in the Shape of a Papyrus Column
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Singer model 66 treadle sewing machine and motor from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · 1921

Kohl tube and stick
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Design for the West Wall of the Music Room, for Brighton Pavilion, Brighton, England
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1817

Cosmetic container decorated with a pair of Bes-images
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1400 BCE

Design for the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1819–20

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Trophy awarded to golfer Ethel Funches
Artist not stated in the record · 1968

Column Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · October 1796

Column Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 41–68 CE

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

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Electrical hot comb heater and hot comb
Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Ornamental woodwork detail
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1833

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91
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. 66 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. 7483544 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:55 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.