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 “Monumental Head of a Foreigner” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Monumental Head of a Foreigner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Sepulchral Monument to a Hero
Unknown, Italian · 1815–30

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Head of Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette Monument, Paris, France)
Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled 1899-1907

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

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

Attendants in a Procession
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Monument, column and spiral staircase
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

Statue of the God Reshef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · August 3, 1839

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Sketch for a monument to be fastened to a wall
Domenico Mondo, Italian, 1723 - 1806 · ca. 1800

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Head of Victory
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · 1902

Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà)
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · Mid-16th–late 17th century

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century
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. 1346 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. 3875836 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-06 16:05 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.