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 “Statue of an asymmetrically seated man” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Statue of an asymmetrically seated man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Seated Bishop
Tilman Riemenschneider · ca. 1495

Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

Statue of Seated Imhotep
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Title Page
Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756 · 1735

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

Portrait of a Seated Man
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1650–1700

Marble statue of a draped seated man
Zeuxis · 1st century BCE

Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1875

Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Sketch of Man Seated in Armchair
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1878

Seated man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1550 B.C.

Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1770

Statue of Siamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1550 B.C.

Man Seated
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Seated Man with Beard
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Seated bodhisattva (left attendant of a triad)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-17th century

Cartouche with Lion
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Diligence à Panneaux
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

Stelophorous Statue of Bay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1200 BCE

Quatre Parties du monde
Joseph Gaspard Picart · ca. 1785
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. 1023 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. 2996503 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.