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 “Bronze portrait bust of a girl” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 07:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Portrait of a Peasant Girl
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1875

Bronze portrait bust of a girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Bust of a Young Girl
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 19th century

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Wildflower
Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · 1880

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Design for an Oil Lamp.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Design for a Clock
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Portrait of a Costumed Figure
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

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

(Bust of a Girl)
Henry Linder, born Brooklyn, NY 1854-died New York City 1910 · ca. 1886-1902

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Portrait of a Young Girl
Mary Jane Simes, born Baltimore, MD 1807-died Baltimore, MD 1872 · 1825

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)
André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800-1820

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)
André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

La Bohémienne
Artist not stated in the record · 1878

Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Portrait of a Girl
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

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

Portrait of a Young Girl
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1909
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. 2164 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3856641 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 2026-08-30 07:54 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.