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Images / art

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 “Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:51 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stove and cover

Stove and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 625–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural element

Architectural element

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black Forest Sketches, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Black Forest Sketches

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · September 18, 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Majolica Pitcher

Design for Majolica Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a woman

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Centerpiece, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Centerpiece

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

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

Public domainThe Met
Roofs and Treetops in Ambato, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Roofs and Treetops in Ambato, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 17, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 580–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Parish Church of Our Lady of Chiquinquira del Cerrito, Chiquinquira, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Parish Church of Our Lady of Chiquinquira del Cerrito, Chiquinquira, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta antefix

Terracotta antefix

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
El Altar from Riobamba, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

El Altar from Riobamba, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 13, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Swiss Chalet and Mixed Sketches, Switzerland, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Swiss Chalet and Mixed Sketches, Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antefix with Head of a Male Deity

Antefix with Head of a Male Deity

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
South American Landscape, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

South American Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antefix

Antefix

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Study for a group, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for a group, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 168 matched · 24 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. 3896849 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 23:51 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.