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Images / art

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 “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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Ostracon with Figure of the God Ptah and Artist's Signature

Ostracon with Figure of the God Ptah and Artist's Signature

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

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ptah

Ptah

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

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Fountain Design with Oceanus and the River Gods Arno and Tiber, by Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1541– ca. 1590

Recto: Fountain Design with Oceanus and the River Gods Arno and Tiber

Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1541– ca. 1590 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon

Ostracon

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Single Infantry Figures and Practice Signatures, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Sketches of Single Infantry Figures and Practice Signatures

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi), by Yombe-Kongo artist and nganga (ritual specialist)

Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi)

Yombe-Kongo artist and nganga (ritual specialist) · ca. 1880–1900

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838), by Augustin Pajou

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)

Augustin Pajou · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Elevation of a Villa, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Project for the Elevation of a Villa

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Fortuna, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Fortuna

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

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

Public domainThe Met
Study for Staircase Decoration, Hanbury Hall, Worchestershire: Achilles Revealing his Identity in the Palace of Lycomedes, by Sir James Thornhill, English, 1675 - 1734

Study for Staircase Decoration, Hanbury Hall, Worchestershire: Achilles Revealing his Identity in the Palace of Lycomedes

Sir James Thornhill, English, 1675 - 1734 · ca. 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heart of the Andes, by Frederic Edwin Church

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Ignudo from Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Ignudo from Sistine Chapel ceiling

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zemí cohoba stand, by Taíno artist(s)

Zemí cohoba stand

Taíno artist(s) · ca. 1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome, by Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiki (male figure), by Mangarevan artist

Tiki (male figure)

Mangarevan artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Nuptiae, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Nuptiae

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

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

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris, by Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618

River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.