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. 20 shown for “Marble hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces” — 48 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 04:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble hekataion (statuette of triple-bodied Hekate) and the three Graces
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Three Graces
Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

Marble statuette of the goddess Hekate
Alkamenes · 1st–2nd century CE

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Marble hekataion
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Toddy lifter (syphon)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Charity
Claudius Floris · 1536–1547/48

Urn (One of a Pair)
Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608)
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · ca. 1580

Urn (One of a Pair)
Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · first half of the 16th century?

Decanter and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783–99

The suicide of Ajax
Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1690

Carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Ely
Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1869

Carte-de-visite portrait of Sally Cadwallader Ely
Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1869

Decanter and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–20

Carte-de-visite portrait of Isabel and Herbert Howland
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Coffeepot with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1904367 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-31 04:40 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.