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. 12 shown for “Bronze relief of a veiled woman riding a sea-goat” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 05:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bronze relief of a veiled woman riding a sea-goat
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Bronze statuette of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Terracotta statuette of a veiled dancer
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Bronze relief of the head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE or 4th century CE

Bronze torso from an equestrian statue wearing a cuirass
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE

Bronze box mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 4th century BCE or later

Marble grave stele with a family group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE
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. 110 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 05:15 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.