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 “Lower part of a marble seated statue of Hygieia” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Lower part of a marble seated statue of Hygieia
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Marble statue of a lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Marble statue of a wounded warrior
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–181 CE

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)
Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Marble statue of a wounded Amazon
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Enthroned Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th–early 9th century

Bedside table (table de nuit)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1750–56
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. 980 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:51 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.