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 “Column Statue of a King” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Column Statue of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Interior Wall Elevation with a Statue of the King Louis XIV
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1656–57

Column
Maya artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

King Clovis I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Design for a Frontispiece or Title page
Artist not stated in the record · 1691–1700

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

Monument of King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

King Clothar I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Stage Design: Columned Hall with Sculpture and Inscriptions Relating to the Aenead
Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini, Italian, 1636–1707 · late 17th century

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Monument of King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Wall Elevation with Panels of Chinese Figures, for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Artist not stated in the record · 1619

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Haremhab as a Scribe of the King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1314 BCE

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793
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. 709 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. 3960113 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 20:19 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.