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 statuette of a kneeling boy holding a hare” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 02:44 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 a kneeling boy holding a hare
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

Allegory of Transience
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1655

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

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Oriental Scene
Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 · ca. 1770

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

Le Galand Chasseur
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

Statue of a kneeling Kushite king
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury
William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864 · 1823

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

Adoration of the Shepherds
Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian, 1728 – 1781 · 1766

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

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

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Clock and key
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

First Communion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Limestone statuette of a temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Photograph of Chase County High School (Kansas) baseball team
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907

Bronze statuette of a child with a bunch of grapes
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Lobby card for The Bronze Venus
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
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. 298 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. 3865632 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-09 02:44 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.