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 “Upper part of a statue of Thutmose III” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Upper part of a statue of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Phacelia cumingii (Benth.) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1925

Sandals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Carceri Series, Plate III
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1745

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Elevation of a funeral chapel
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE
Patosia clandestina (Phil.) Buchenau
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1925

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Four Studies of a Foot
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 16th century

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Main altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Enthroned Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th–early 9th century

Elevation of a Country Villa
Unknown, Italian · ca. 1820

Marble head and torso of Athena
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Design for a wall of a ballroom
Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

Upper Half of a Woman from a Pair Statue
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1425 BCE

Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici
Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · ca. 1690

Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Architecture and Figure Studies
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–90

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus
Artist not stated in the record · 251–253 CE

Two Projects for Painted Decorations of Panels
Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1590

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Azorella compacta Phil.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1925
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. 1362 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. 3961055 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.