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. 13 shown for “Limestone statuette of Bes” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 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 statuette of Bes
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th or early 5th century BCE

Project for an Alter Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Limestone Bes
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE

Statuette of Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1504 BCE

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Limestone sarcophagus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony
Hans Daucher · ca. 1520

Limestone statuette of a temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

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

Limestone statuette of three animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th century BCE

Limestone figure with mask
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Limestone figure wearing a mask
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century 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. 1183 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. 2870238 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:32 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.