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 “Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

Triumphal Arch Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Study of Woman Praying for "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844

'Otua fefine (deity figure)
Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 170? – 1762 · ca. 1767

Kneeling female figure
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Doorway Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Female Figure
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd millennium BCE

Superbe POELE formant meuble et décore, multipliant les tuyaux de chaleur par le même proceed que celui du No. 6; pouvant s’ajuster devant une glace; que l’on peut renvoyer par un bouton, dans une boiserie à coulisse, et qui peut découvrir une croisée, dont la situation offre une belle vue. Il est impossible de décrire tous les changemens et avantages dont ce Poële est susceptible.
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Putti and Winged Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

Virgin and Child
Master of the Female Half-Lengths · ca. 1525–50

Nude Male Figure, Study for "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844

Seated female
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5600–5000 BCE

Doorway or Triumphal Arch Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Female figure from an obu (house of images)
Igbo artist · Late 19th century

Figure Studies
Carlo Bononi, Italian, 1569–1632 · 1600–20

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Ace of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Elevation of Salt Cellars
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1825
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. 780 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 814006 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 23:23 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.