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. 21 shown for “Standing man holding statuette of Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway” — 56 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing man holding statuette of Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway
Artist not stated in the record · 600–200 BCE

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Albumen print of a sharecropping family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Terracotta statuette of a male figure holding the head and neck of a mask or image
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Photograph of a man and woman standing on a sidewalk
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

The Fugitive's Story
John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904 · 1869

Statuette of a flutist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE or later

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

Satyr
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1510–ca. 1520

Photograph of a staged sword duel
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Photograph of a man and a woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Statuette of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Tile panel
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds
Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Warrior (Musketeer)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Venus Marina
Girolamo Campagna · late 16th century–early 17th 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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 2897315 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-10 18:05 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.