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. 15 shown for “Bronze statuette of Hercle (Roman Hercules)” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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 statuette of Hercle (Roman Hercules)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Design for a Fan: Capriccio with Roman Ruins and the Farnese Hercules
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian, 1691 - 1765 · ca. 1750

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

Stag
Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Firefighter Statuette
unknown · 19th century

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Bronze diskos thrower
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–460 BCE

Bronze statuette of Hercules
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Bronze mirror
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Bronze statuette of a horse
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

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

Bronze statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 2nd century CE

The Mountain Man
Frederic Remington · 1903, cast by March 1907

Bronze statuette of Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE
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. 398 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. 2860553 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:14 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.