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 herm” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 14:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble herm
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Carex scopulorum var. bracteosa (L.H. Bailey) F.J. Herm.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1949

Marble female herm
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Design for a Niche with a Buffet
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

Marble relief with Hermes
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Design for a Table
Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831 · late 18th century

Marble herm head of a bearded deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE

Interior Wall Elevations
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

Marble head from a herm
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Three Herms, Studies after Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Marble head from a herm
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 5th century BCE

Four Herms, Studies after the Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

Marble head of a herm
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Venus Complains to Jupiter
Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · mid-16th century

Marble statue of Hermes
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1949

Marble head of a bearded man from a herm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–425 BCE

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1964

Marble statue of Hermes
Polykleitos · 1st or 2nd century CE

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1947

Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320–300 BCE

Lonchocarpus vallicola (Standl. & F.J. Herm.) M. Sousa
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1964

Marble disk with a herm of Dionysus in relief
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of 1st century CE

Carex bicknellii var. opaca F.J. Herm.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1969
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. 31 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. 5428 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 14:05 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.