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. 23 shown for “Royal bust” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Royal bust
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

LA POMPE DE LA SAMARITAINE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1684–1703

Royal bust
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Title Page, Vasses de la Maison Royalle de L'oo Nouvellement (Vessels of the Royal House of L'oo)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

Royal bust with atypical snake
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Prospectus Armamentarii regii versus arcem Principis Regis (View of the Royal Armory opposite the Prince's Palace)
Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)
Augustin Pajou · 1789
Plate Commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1887

Honoré de Balzac
Auguste Rodin · 1891

Cup and Saucer Commemorating the Battle of Waterloo
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · early 19th century

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Four Cartouche Designs
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca. 1690

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux
Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

TItle Page
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Title Page
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal
Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

Bust of an Englishman
Peter Anton von Verschaffelt · 1740

Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal
Frederik Christopher Krohn, Danish, 1806 - 1883 · April 18, 1834

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Hiram Powers
Charles Francis Fuller, English, born England 1830-died Florence, Italy 1875 · modeled ca. 1870

Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE
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. 204 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. 18739 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 14:53 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.