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. 12 shown for “Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis” — 25 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

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

A child god, probably Harpokrates
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE or earlier

Statue of a goddess, probably Nehemetaway or Nebethetepet
Artist not stated in the record · 550–300 BCE

Statue of Anubis as a recumbent canid
Artist not stated in the record · 343–30 BCE

Bronze statuette of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Anubis as Defender of Osiris / Dionysus (?)
Artist not stated in the record · probably 2nd–3rd century CE

Jupiter
Benvenuto Cellini · late 16th century

Bronze horse
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Relief showing a priest and a woman worshipping Anubis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Sea monster
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · ca. 1500–1510
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. 128 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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 17:58 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.