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. 23 shown for “Female Figure” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:51 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble female figure
Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure
Unidentified · 19th century

Female Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–19th century

Allegorical Figure of "Asia"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

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

Allegorical Figure of "Europe"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

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

Allegorical Figure of "America"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

Marble female figure
Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

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

Candelabrum
Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · 1815–25

Corbel with Female Figure with Clasped Hands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Candelabrum
Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · 1815–25

Female Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

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

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

Head of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

The Four Continents: America, Asia, Africa, Europe
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Design for Magazine Cover
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1897

Female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Study of a female figure
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900
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. 2997 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 574139 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 20:51 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.