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 “Winged griffin plaque inscribed with the name Nebpehtyre (Ahmose I)” — 57 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 00:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term..jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Winged griffin plaque inscribed with the name Nebpehtyre (Ahmose I)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Clock
Antoine-Andre Ravrio, French, 1759–1814 · 1807–10

Coffin of Ahmose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Valentine
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–80

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Bookmark
Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888 · 1870–1880

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Rookwood
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1903–13

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins
Artist not stated in the record · July 2002

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

VASES NOUVEAUX
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

Panel with an Ivory Crucifixion Scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century

Framed photograph of Lt. General Colin L. Powell in West Wing of White House
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1986-1989

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Pendant Design
Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1581

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Design for a painted ceiling
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1810

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Design for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
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"I Am W.W. King, Who The [Devil] Are You"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 7467107 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-07 00:43 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.