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 “Figure of an Asiatic captive” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 12:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figure of an Asiatic captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland
Thomas Hudson Jones, American, 1892 - 1969 · ca. 1942

Monumental Head of a Foreigner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Ornament Panel with Bird Cage
Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · ca. 1507

Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1290 BCE

Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki
Josef Georg Kornhäusel, Austrian, 1782 - 1860 · 1831

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Design of Wall Decoration and Equestrian Monument for Law Courts, Naples, Italy
Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

Standing Vishnu as Keshava
Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Frieze in Classical Style, A Villa Upon a Hill
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Lion Subduing a Prince of Kush
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Standing figure
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1770–80

Tile with a fragment of a captive from the palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Clavus band
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Two Groups Captives from the Victory of Leo IV over the Saracens
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

Glass plaque fragment depicting a trophy and captives
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Minerva and a winged god
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Doors of a prison
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790
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. 262 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. 2882328 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-05 12:56 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.