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 female” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated female
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5600–5000 BCE

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

Seated female
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

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

Seated Female Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Seated female figure with cross and building model
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Seated female figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Seated Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

Seated female figure
Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Seated Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

Seated female figure
Remojadas artist(s) · 600-1000 CE

Seated Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

Seated Female Esoteric Buddhist Deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-10th century

Seated Female Nude
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1870–80

Limestone statuette of a seated female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca.525–500 BCE

Seated Female Nude
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1870–80

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

Seated Female Nude, Study for Portrait of Mrs. Cortland DePeyster Field (nee Hamersley)
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1881

Seated elder
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Sidewall
Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1792–93

Seated Female Deity Holding a Conch and Branch (?)
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

Seated Female Torso
Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled ca. 1895

Kneeling female figure
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Seated female figure with books and putti
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70
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. 706 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 551645 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 01:48 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.