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 “Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 14:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1290 BCE

Interior Wall Elevation
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1656–57

Prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Two Designs for Prison Doorway Erected by Pope Pius VI
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand Grasping a Rod
Artist not stated in the record · 1863

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Cast of an Unidentified Child's Left Hand Grasping a Rod
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

Orpheus
Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano) · 1600–1601

Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand in a Relaxed Position
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

Statue of Seated Imhotep
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna
Unknown · 1650–75

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Cast of an Unidentified Baby's Left Hand Pressing Down
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

Haremhab as a Scribe of the King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1314 BCE

Cast of an Unidentified Left Hand Pressing Down
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.

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

The Wounded Scout. A Friend In The Swamp.
John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904 · 1864

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

Winter
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1787

Cast of an Unidentified Right Hand on a Plaster Base
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · n.d.
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. 336 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. 3960043 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 14:32 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.