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. 12 shown for “Princeton Group” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 540 BCE

Terracotta onos (leg guard used in carding wool)
Golonos Group · ca. 510–500 BCE

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 550 BCE

Marble grave stele with a family group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Joseph (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Virgin and Child (from an group with the Adoration of the Magi)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Group of fifteen terracotta comic actors
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

Women's overskirt
Bushong-Kuba artists · 18th–late 19th 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. 327 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 132470 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:15 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.