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. 13 shown for “Lydia Headly” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Embroidered Sampler
Lydia Headly · ca. 1805

Lydia Maria Francis Child
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841

Terracotta siphon
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Terracotta fragment of a lydion (perfume jar)?
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Antigraceful
Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Euphronios · ca. 515 BCE

Study for "Fusion of a Head and a Window"
Umberto Boccioni · 1912

Head of the Artist's Mother
Umberto Boccioni · 1915

Study for "The Dream – Paolo and Francesca"
Umberto Boccioni · 1910

Head Against the Light (The Artist's Sister)
Umberto Boccioni · 1912

Head of a Young Woman with a Large Hat
Umberto Boccioni · 1911

Study of a Man's Forearm (recto); Study of Extended Arms with Hands Clasped (verso)
Umberto Boccioni · ca. 1908

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180
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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1222 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:40 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.