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 statuette of a woman, perhaps a Hesperid” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:33 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 woman, perhaps a Hesperid
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

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

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

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

Terracotta statuette of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Fountain and Grotto
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1830

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

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Liatris chapmanii Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1991

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

Animal statuette
Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Animal statuette
Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

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

Lion statuette
Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

Woman Getting out of the Bath
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920

Ornament: animal statuette
Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

Sailboat and Crashing Wave
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1845

Crouching Venus
Giambologna · 17th century

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

Woman Stretching
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884–89, cast 1920
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. 268 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. 3856809 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 2026-09-07 06:33 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.