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. 15 shown for “Mace Head” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 15:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mace head
Salinar artist(s) · 500–100 BCE

Costume Design: Valor for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Mace head
Salinar artist(s) · 500–100 BCE

Panel with Battle Scene
William Pitts · 1880

Mace head
Salinar artist(s) · 500–100 BCE

Iron Gates of the Mint, Paris
Jacques-Denis Antoine, French, 1733 – 1801 · ca. 1776
Mace head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Mace head
Salinar artist(s) · 450–150 BCE

Gabbro mace head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–1900 BCE

Gabbro mace head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–1900 BCE

Gabbro mace head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–1900 BCE

Gabbro mace head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–1900 BCE

Gabbro mace head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–1900 BCE

Mace
Artist not stated in the record · 1648–87

Mace
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century
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. 173 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 65740 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 15:05 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.