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. 13 shown for “Bunraku Puppet Head for Young Male Role” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bunraku Puppet Head for Young Male Role
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Puppet
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Royal portrait of Akessa(?)
Boyo artist · Late 18th–19th century

Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes
Miyagawa Chōshun 宮川長春 · early 18th century

Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591)
Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) · 1548

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)
Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1156829 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:28 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.