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 “University Scepter” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 21:34 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.

University Scepter
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century (1419? with alterations after 1478)

Lead figure of a man with a spear or scepter
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Bronze statuette of Jupiter Capitolinus
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Cult Image of the God Ptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–600 BCE

Bronze cock
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)
Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Rock crystal Statuette of a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Cup and saucer
Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), Berlin · ca. 1825
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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-29 21:34 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.