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 statuette of a seated Zeus Ammon” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Zeus and Ganymede
Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812 · ca. 1802

Paris, Zeus visiting Callisto
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Design for Ceiling with Spartan Women in Central Rectangular Panel
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

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

Zeus Angered
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

Fallen Column at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Hebe Offering a Drink to Zeus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–23

Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus
Lockwood de Forest, American, 1850–1932 · January 24, 1878

Payment of Zeus
Carl Marr, born Milwaukee, WI 1858-died Munich, Germany 1936 · n.d.

Edward Newell
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3859886 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 06:34 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.