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 “Seated Hindu Goddess” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of a goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1224 BCE

Seated Hindu Goddess
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Seated goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century

Overdoor
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Seated Mother Goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 3000–2500 BCE

Study for Painting, Mount Olympus
Vito D'Anna, Italian, 1718 - 1769 · 1750–60

Seated Mother Goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3000–2500 BCE

Seated Guanyin (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Terracotta figurine of a seated goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Diana and Endymion
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1650

Terracotta statuette of a seated goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Mars and Juno; Mercury and Diana set in Diagonal Composition
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815
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. 374 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. 12212 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.