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. 19 shown for “Seated limestone kourotrophos” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:46 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 limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

Seated Nude Girl
John B. Flannagan, born Fargo, ND 1895-died New York City 1942 · n.d.

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Seated bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Armchair with slip seat
John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th or early 5th century BCE

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Limestone
Artist not stated in the record

Seated limestone kourotrophos
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Audience chairs from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios
Artist not stated in the record · after 1995

Seated limestone kourotrophos with another child standing
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Seated figure of Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–525 BCE

Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 1264–88

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.
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. 170 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. 32945 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:46 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.