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. 23 shown for “Bronze shepherd's crook” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:53 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 shepherd's crook
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1050 BCE

Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Shepherd's crook
Artist not stated in the record

Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Shepherd's crook or staff
Artist not stated in the record

La Pastorale
Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

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

Trophy Design
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1772

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

ATTRIBUTS PASTORALS
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1772–77

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

Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

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

A Couple Embracing in a Landscape
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

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

Bed hanging
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

Cassandra
Max Klinger, German, b. Leipzig, 1857–1920 · (1886-1895/cast 1895-1904)

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

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses
Unidentified Artist · 1872

Statuette of Osiris
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Head of Diana
Alexandre Falguière, French, b. Toulouse, 1831–1900 · (1882-1890/cast c. 1891-1926)

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524
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. 92 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 14735 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:53 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.