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 “Band with Figures” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Man's mantle (hinggi)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

King's attendant
Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1722

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Choir stall panels
Johann Justus Schacht · ca. 1723–26, figures 1787

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Elderly king
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

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

Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1683

King's attendant
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · possibly late 17th century

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)
Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Band with Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–11th century

Old Persian Carving in Brass
Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911 · 1886

Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809
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. 35353 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 276219 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 17:44 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.