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 “Human-headed winged bull” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Human-headed winged bull (lamassu)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

The Holy Trinity
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1511

Brooch with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1873

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Human-headed winged bull and lion
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Siren Earrings
Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1870

Human-headed winged lion and bull
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

A Cantharus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Brooch with Assyrian winged human-headed bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–1875

St. Luke, from The Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1541

Earrings with Assyrian human-headed winged bulls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–1875

Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

Human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Design for a Water Urn with Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

Belt buckle with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

"classical medallions"
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1805

Dress stud with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

Stick pin with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

Pendant with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Plate 36, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

Brooch with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1894

Design for a Candlestick
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30
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. 346 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. 60 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-26 20:52 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.