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. 23 shown for “Marble head of a Greek general” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble head of a Greek general
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
![[Hiram Powers's sculpture of The Greek Slave], by Unidentified](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DSAAM-1991.56.405_4.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Hiram Powers's sculpture of The Greek Slave]
Unidentified · 1848-1849

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Model of the Greek Slave
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · 1843

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

The Greek Slave
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1843

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

The Greek Slave
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

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

Dancing Figure
Elie Nadelman, born Warsaw, Poland 1882-died New York City 1946 · ca. 1916-1918

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

The Greek Slave
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843, carved ca. 1873

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)
André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Head of a Fury
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)
André Charles Boulle · late 18th century

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

Marble grave stele of a little girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Baby's Left Hand (unfinished)
Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · n.d.

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

Drawing for a candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Head of Apollo
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

Commode
Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49
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. 19715 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. 3874590 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.