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 youthful votary wearing a pointed cap” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:33 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 youthful votary wearing a pointed cap
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)
Artist not stated in the record · end of the 6th century BCE

Untitled
Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940 · ca. 1935

Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

"Brownies" Characters
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1894

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

Head of a Turbaned Youth
Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40

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

Child Wearing a Cap or Crown
Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Man Wearing Zouave's Cap
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1861

Limestone head of a wreathed youth
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp
Artist not stated in the record · 1637

Limestone head of a man wearing a helmet
Artist not stated in the record · middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century B.C.

Limestone head of a wreathed youth
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Self Portrait Wearing a Soft Cap: Full Face, Head only
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1634

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms
Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men
Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1914

Bronze statuette of a youth
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

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

A Youthful Pilgrim
Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600
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. 69 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. 4490910 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 07:33 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.