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 “A lion headed goddess, possibly Wadjet” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A lion headed goddess, possibly Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th century BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

A lion headed goddess, possibly Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1883–1884

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Design for Doors
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1716

Head of a goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1224 BCE

Design for a Ceiling Painting: Diana Selene Perceives Endymion
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Statuette of a lion-headed goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Design for Bedroom Furniture
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Lion-headed goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

La Terre
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Hercules and the Nemean Lion
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping
Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

Winged Goddess, probably Nut or Isis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Design for a Candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Inlay of a seated lion-headed goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

Lion-headed goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800
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. 392 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. 1812316 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 07:06 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.