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 “Ornament in the form of a standing bull” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bull
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Ornament in the form of a standing bull
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Ornament
Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Fragment of a Design for a Nef, or Fantastic Centerpiece in the Form of A Boat
Artist not stated in the record · 1600

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Ornament
Maya artist(s) · 3rd–9th century

Le Feu
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament
Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · 1680–1700

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 1720–1780

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Bird Cage in the Form of a Church
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 17th century

Standing Vishnu as Keshava
Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Plate 43, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

Bull
Giambologna · 18th–19th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1738-1749
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. 5111 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7484740 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-08 16:02 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.