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. 12 shown for “Gilt terracotta statuette of a goat” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 07:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Gilt terracotta statuette of a goat
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century BCE

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Elderly king
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

King
Nicola Ingaldi · second half 18th century

Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Fragment of a terracotta plate
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Fragment of a terracotta stemmed dish
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 6th century BCE

Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th 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. 962 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 07:34 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.