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 “Limestone statue of a male votary holding a bird in the left hand” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:06 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.

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

Limestone statue of a male votary holding a dove and an apple
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

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

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

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

Marble statue of a wounded warrior
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–181 CE

Limestone statuette of beardless male votary in Greek dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

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

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

Limestone statue of a male votary
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

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

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 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. 1062 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 2026-08-27 10:06 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.