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 “Male Figure on Stool” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 21:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Male Figure on Stool (tunjo)
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

The Clown
Jules Cheret, French, born Paris, France 1836-died Nice, France 1932 · 1915
Male Figure on Stool
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–400 CE

Sketch of Victory holding Bowknot and Trumpet; sketches of Wall Section and Stool
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Tiki (male figure)
Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Female Nude on a Stool
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1858

Seated binukedine ( priest)
Dogon blacksmith · 18th–19th century

Sketchbook Page: Seated Figures
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1877–78

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

William Howard Russell
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

Terracotta Little Master cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

Male Figure (Moai Tangata)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Encampment of the Exploring Party in Lew Chew
P. S. Duval & Son Lithography Co., active 1838 - 1869 · 1856

Male figure
Soninke blacksmith · 13th century

The Blockmaker
Edgar Melville Ward, born Urbana, OH 1839-died New York City 1915 · n.d.

Standing figure
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Four of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Gwantigi
Bamana numu (blacksmith) · 15th–17th century

"Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government," Harper's Weekly
William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931 · August 27, 1898

Standing male worshiper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Girl on a Hassock
Unidentified (European) · 18th century

Coca chewer on bench
Capulí artist(s) · 800–1500 CE

Standing Female Nude
Carl Newman, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died Abington, PA 1932
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. 2326 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1632657 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-09 21:40 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.