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 statue of an aristocratic boy” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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 statue of an aristocratic boy
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Second Empire Salon
Unknown, French · 1850–60

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777–90

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Lobby card for The Bronze Venus
Artist not stated in the record · 1943

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Window card for The Bronze Venus
Unidentified · 1943

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1768

Fountain in bronze
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Lafayette (model for colossal statue)
Cyrus E. Dallin, born Springville, UT 1861-died Arlington Heights, MA 1944 · 1889

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

La danseuse de corde
Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848 · 1785–90

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

figure study for a fountain design
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

Bronze statue of a camillus (acolyte)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–54 CE

Aristocrates Being Carried
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Bronze horse
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Inkwell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735
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. 686 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. 2993978 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-26 16:07 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.