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. 19 shown for “Figurine with articulated limbs” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figurine with articulated limbs
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Leopardus pardalis melanurus
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1920

Figurine with articulated limbs
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 5th Century BCE

Megahippus mckennai Voorhies
Artist not stated in the record · 1971

Bone figurine with articulated limbs
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or 3rd century BCE

Acinonyx jubatus raineyi
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1909

Serpent labret with articulated tongue
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Acinonyx jubatus raineyi
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1909

Terracotta figurine of a young woman with articulated arms seated on a chair
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Leopardus pardalis
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1973

A Tusk Figurine of a Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3900–3500 BCE

Leopardus wiedii pirrensis
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1929

Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record

Apis
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Nude female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony
Hans Daucher · ca. 1520

Terracotta limbless "doll"
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE
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. 97 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 251766 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 11:27 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.