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 “Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Study of the Heads of a Chicken and Stag
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1648–1540 B.C.

Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Study of stag head
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1900

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Studies of Ducks and a Fowl with Chickens
Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849 · 1825–1849

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

A Standing Stag
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1846–56

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Title Page
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 270–250 BCE

Pynson Wilmot Bennitt's Room, Trinity College, Oxford
Arthur Frederick Payne, English · 1857

Study of Eleven Heads
Jacques de Gheyn II · late 16th–early 17th century

Sheet with Three Heads
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

Torso of a Bodhisattva
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Chest protector
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants
Unknown, Italian · ca. 1785

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1720
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. 38022 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. 4139068 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-05 06:39 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.