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 statuette of a boy holding a dove” — 64 records examined, 22 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 statuette of a boy holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Sketch for a Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Limestone statuette of a boy holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

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

Button with Painted Lady Holding a Dove
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Limestone temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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

Venus (Design for a Wall Painting)
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

Limestone temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Limestone temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter fo the 4th century BCE

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Third Scene
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Terracotta statuette of a woman holding a bird
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Sketch of Female Figure with a Dove
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

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

Valentine
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–80

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Panel of Arabesques for the Hôtel de Salm, Paris
Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · 1785

Limestone statuette of a temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury
William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864 · 1823

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

Study of a Young Boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
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. 128 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. 3861982 matched · 40 examined · 22 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.