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 “Crouching Tiger Figure” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crouching Tiger Figure
Artist not stated in the record

Crouching tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 220-266

Tiger
Mary Atwood · 19th century

Sketches for “The Prudent Tiger” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · ca. 1877

Crouching frog
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE

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

Set of twelve zodiac animals
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Fountain; elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1792–1795

Crouching Venus
Giambologna · 17th century

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1760

Crouching Venus
Giambologna · 17th century

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

Panel with crouching figure holding a key
Artist not stated in the record · 100–300 CE

Throne
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

Corbel with Crouching Male Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Lady and the Tiger
Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City 1924 · 1900

Marble statue of Aphrodite crouching and arranging her hair
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Figural Study of a Man
Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1630–1640

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

A crouching, snarling tiger
Gantoku Aoki (1804-1859) · early 19th century

Nude crouching figure wearing a wreath, large phallus broken away
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Three Men
Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1630–1640
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. 297 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. 38278 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-03 12:57 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.