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. 22 shown for “Limestone statuette of a nursing mother” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:47 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 nursing mother
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of 6th century BCE

Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1949

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

On the Beach at Long Branch – The Children's Hour
James L. Langridge, American, b. England, 1837 · August 15, 1874

Group of two women and a child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1500 B.C.

Pin with Army Nurse Corps insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

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

Pin with Army Nurse Corps insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943

Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 310–30 BCE

Lapel pin for Honorable Discharge issued to Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps
Artist not stated in the record · 1949

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

First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love
Augustin Pajou · 1799

Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in her Army Nurse Corps uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1947

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

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Statuette of Isis nursing Horus
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

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

God's Wife Tagerem, daughter of the priest Imhotep
Artist not stated in the record · 300–250 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. 487 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3859067 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:47 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.