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 shepherd” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 02:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bronze shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 6th century BCE

Bronze shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Bronze statuette of a shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BCE

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Bronze shepherd's crook
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1050 BCE

Pierre-Victor Corbin (1815–1850)
Antoine Etex · ca. 1839

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds
Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Seated satyr with silvered eyes
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Shepherd's crook
Artist not stated in the record

Shepherd musicians
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1744

The Opening of the New Council Chamber of the Guildhall, London, October 2, 1884
Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1884
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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 02:28 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.