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Images / art

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 “Marble head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 09:25 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Marble head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet

Marble head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Personification of America, by Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757

Personification of America

Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757 · before 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a panel, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a panel

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
RECEUIL DES Plans Profils et Elevations Des plusieurs Palais Chasteaux Eglises Sepultures Grotes et Hostels, Bâtis dans Paris, et aux environs, avec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu Architects du Royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et gravez par Jean Marot Architecte Parisien, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

RECEUIL DES Plans Profils et Elevations Des plusieurs Palais Chasteaux Eglises Sepultures Grotes et Hostels, Bâtis dans Paris, et aux environs, avec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu Architects du Royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et gravez par Jean Marot Architecte Parisien

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of an athlete

Marble head of an athlete

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–192 CE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "America", by Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858

Allegorical Figure of "America"

Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858 · mid- 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bracket

Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Greek general

Marble head of a Greek general

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
COLLECTION DE DESSINS Des Poëles de formes antique et modern, de l’invention et de la Manufacture du Sieur OLLIVIER, rue de la Roquette, fauxbourg Saint-Antoine., by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

COLLECTION DE DESSINS Des Poëles de formes antique et modern, de l’invention et de la Manufacture du Sieur OLLIVIER, rue de la Roquette, fauxbourg Saint-Antoine.

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray., by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray.

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs

Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait bust of a woman

Marble portrait bust of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 155–165 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing for a candelabrum

Drawing for a candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 486 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. 3872334 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-30 09:25 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.