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 “Ornamental Mask” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ornamental mask
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Ritual Performance
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

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

Ceiling Design
Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

Mask
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 500 BCE–300 CE

Designs for Two Vertical Panels
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

Mask
Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures
Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561 · 1550

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Coat of Arms of the Grand Duke of Tuscany: Ornament with a Lion Mask, No. 6 from "Raccolta di varii cappriccii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti"
Artist not stated in the record · 1646

Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Ornament with Mask
Artist not stated in the record · mid-3rd millennium BCE

Braziers and Ornament Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

Ornamental Mask
Artist not stated in the record · before 16th century

Braziers and Ornament Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

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

Braziers and Ornament Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

Mask
Calima (Ilama) artist · 1000–100 BCE

Braziers and Ornament Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

Plaque with Masked Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Braziers and Ornament Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

Plaque with Masked Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy
Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch, active 1559 – d. 1589 · ca. 1570-80
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. 528 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. 39245 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 15:54 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.