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 “Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a kid” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a kid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a bunch of daisies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

Limestone statue fragment of a hand holding a pyxis or bobbin
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Piety
Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651 · 1610

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Sampler fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Limestone statue fragment of a right hand with a bracelet, holding a flower
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Kneeling Statue of Yuny
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1816

Limestone statue of a male votary holding a bird in the left hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca 500–450 BCE

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)
Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand resting on a dove
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Study: The left hand of a woman holding a sheet of paper
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Stelophorous Statue of Bay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1200 BCE

Study: the left hand of a young man holding a stick and resting on a book
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Head of Tutankhamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Limestone figure holding a mask
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 6th century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 1263 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3953199 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 12:39 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.