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 “Ceres” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ceres
Augustin Pajou · ca. 1768–70

Erica articularis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/3/88

Ceres
Michel Anguier · 1700, after a 1652 model

The Seasons Bring Gifts to Ceres and Triptolemus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Ceres
Niccolò Roccatagliata · possibly 17th century or later cast

Char de Ceres.
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

Ceres
Girolamo Campagna · possibly 17th century

Ceres
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

Ceres
Elena Pistrucci · 19th century

Ceres asks Jupiter for Return of Proserpina
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Ceres
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Terminal Figure of Ceres
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · 1911

Ceres
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1748–50

Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres
Artist not stated in the record · 1600

Marble head of a deity
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 2nd century CE

Ceres
Unidentified (Roman) · antique

Ceres
Girolamo Campagna · late 16th–early 17th century

Ceres
Artist not stated in the record · 1787

Infant Ceres
Erastus Dow Palmer · 1849–50; carved 1853

Ceres
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

Veiled Ceres
Vincenzo Camuccini · 1795–1844

Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

Flagon
Abraham Helmhack · ca. 1690
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1979
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. 120 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. 464 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.