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 “Head of Addorsed Maheshvara” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of Addorsed Maheshvara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Brooch in the form of an owl head
Castellani · ca. 1860

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Panel with Horse Heads
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Frieze
Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953 · 1900

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Recto: A portal; Verso: Portrait of a young warrior
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–75

Hemispheroid seal with addorsed Egyptianizing human heads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1991–1786 BCE

Design for a Candlestick
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

Terracotta fragment of a hydria: kalpis (water jar)
Artist not stated in the record · 460–450 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of addorsed griffin heads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1830

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of addorsed bird heads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
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. 63 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. 2881019 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 15:54 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.