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 “Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 22:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jasper statuette of a man wearing a toga
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Sketchbook Page: Draft of Letter
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1877–78

Bronze statuette of a man
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

Albarello
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Bronze shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

The Fugitive's Story
John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904 · 1869

Statuette of Wah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men
Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1914

Bronze statuette of a man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Vase After the Antique
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Tintype of two men wearing suits
Unidentified · 1855-1860s

Statuette of a snake-headed deity
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Photograph of Lucille Brown and Elder Brown among others
Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Tintype portrait of a man wearing a fur hat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Photograph of two men and three women.
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century - early 20th century

Statuette of a Scribe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1347 BCE

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th 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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 3863466 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-10 22:46 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.