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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 “Ostracon with Figure of the God Ptah and Artist's Signature” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ostracon with Figure of the God Ptah and Artist's Signature
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · 1551

Ptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–650 or somewhat later

Recto: Fountain Design with Oceanus and the River Gods Arno and Tiber
Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1541– ca. 1590 · ca. 1570

Ostracon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Sketches of Single Infantry Figures and Practice Signatures
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi)
Yombe-Kongo artist and nganga (ritual specialist) · ca. 1880–1900

God dividing light from darkness, from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling by Michelangelo
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)
Augustin Pajou · 1789

Project for the Elevation of a Villa
Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · late 18th century

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Sketch of Fortuna
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Study for Staircase Decoration, Hanbury Hall, Worchestershire: Achilles Revealing his Identity in the Palace of Lycomedes
Sir James Thornhill, English, 1675 - 1734 · ca. 1710

Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church · 1859

Ignudo from Sistine Chapel ceiling
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Zemí cohoba stand
Taíno artist(s) · ca. 1000 CE

Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome
Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · ca. 1814–1819

Tiki (male figure)
Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Nuptiae
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618 · ca. 1690
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. 1463 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. 3223821 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 01:16 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.